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The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wiseThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise
The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wise: set out with such grace, that it cannot be, but that a man shall take great pleasure in the reading thereof. Translated out of French into English, by John Brooke of AsheThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise: set out with such grace, that it cannot be, but that a man shall take greate pleasure in the reading thereoff. Translated out of French into English, by Iohn Brooke of Ashe
London: printed by Thomas East, 1579
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Theophilus. I know not what their prophecies are, but I never in all my life did see nor hear a thing wherein was less reason, assurance & incerteinly, then in that papistical doctrine. For it consisteth but in mane opinions. But how do those fables agree with that that they themselves 1allege of Saint Augustine, who by their own witnesses should say: If I did know that my Father were in hell, I would pray no more for him then for the devil. Wherefore then have S. Gregory and S. Machair prayed for the damned? And when the Priests do pray unto 2Jesus Christ that he deliver the souls, least that hell should devour them and that they should not fall into the dark and obscure places, in what place do they understand that the souls, for whom they make that request, ought 3to be? Sith that they make request that hell do not devour them, they do then understand and mean, that they are not in hell. But when they add moreover, that they fall not into the dark and tenebrous places, they declare thereby, that ⟨p. 97⟩they ought to be in a place, from which they may not fall. Now, what is that place? Is it Paradise?
Theophilus. I knowe not what their prophecies are, but I neuer in all my lyfe did sée nor heare a thing wherin was lesse reason, assurance & incerteinly, then in that papisticall doctrine. For it consisteth but in mane opinions. But how do those fables agrée with that that they themselues 1alledge of Sainct Augustine, who by their owne witnesses should say: If I did know that my Father were in hell, I would pray no more for him then for the diuell. Wherefore then haue S. Gregory and S. Machair prayed for the dampned? And when the Priestes do pray vnto 2Iesus Christ that he deliuer the soules, least that hel should deuoure them and that they should not fall into the darke and obscure places, in what place doe they vnderstande that the soules, for whom they make that request, ought