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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.
Thomas. I do find that to be the best way, to bestow and give the alms unto the poor widows and fatherless children (for that is the true Religion) then for to take their goods and bestow them upon the dead, or to waste and consume them upon bawds and harlots, and upon their children in like manner.
Thomas. I doe finde that to bée the best waye, to bestowe and giue the almose vnto the poore widowes and fatherlesse children (for that is the true Religion) then for to take their goodes and bestowe them vppon the dead, or to waste and consume them vppon bawdes and harlots, and vpon their children in like manner.
Hillarius. I warrant you they will not follow any good example, nor the certain commandment of God, but what do they follow in this matter? When I have well read over and over again all the holy Scripture, I do not find one word. And the most ancientest that I can find which did first bring in those manner of doings among the 1Paynims, was Pluto: of whom we will speak off hereafter, whom the Docts and the Paynims have made the God of the souls: and the king of the dead, and of hell. After him came Aeneas, who did bring that custom into Italy. After Aeneas, Romulus and Numa the Kings of the Romans: afterwards our Popes, who have continued, augmented and confirmed still more and more those errors and abuses. Although that the Paynims had yet a certain better opinion in the same, then our superstitious Papists had. For they did not make the sacrifices for the dead, for the estimation that they had, that that should serve them for to deliver them from pains, but for to appease them, to the end that ⟨p. 101⟩their spirits should not hurt them and do them evil, if they had displeased them when they were alive. For Plato himself who hath been the one of the chiefest forgers & 2