A14461:537
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 would to God that all our divines bad no more evil and wicked opinions then that panim, touching the doings of the dead, and that they had said no sentence less to be credited then this.
Theophilus. I would to God that all our diuines bad no more euill and wicked opinions then that panim, touching the dooings of the dead, and that they had saide noe sentence lesse to be credited then this.
Thomas. If the paynims did not mean y• their sacrifices & commemoration should profit the dead, wherefore did they it then.
Thomas. If ye panims did not meane y• their sacrifices & commemoration should profit the dead, wherefore did they it then.
Hillarius. It might be that they did think, that there might retourr• unto them some little profit: But yet nevertheless their chief intent and purpose was to appease the souls of the dead and to reconcile them unto them by that means, to the end they should not hurt them, either in their bodies or goods: even as they have accustomed to celebrate scasts and to do sacrifices unto the souls of holy men, whom they did think to be in heaven with the gods, for to have aid and solace, as Aeneas did unto his Father 1Anchises. And all that error proceeded, from the false opinion that they had of the souls, and for want of knowing their nature and estate, therefore they judged after their own sense and understanding, and not after the word of God. As they do also of the bodies, thinking (at the least the most superstitious, as it hath been already touched) that the soul doth walk a certain time, if their bodies hath not bad y honour of the burial, such as appertaineth & was