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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 grant unto thee all that: but to what end serveth it to the dead? First of all what profit can it bring unto the soul? For it cannot touch it, clothe, nor cover it, nor yet descend into Purgatory with it. The body also goeth neither into purgatory nor into hell, but is buried in the earth, until the day of the resurrection. For then the habit shall be clean rotten, and I do not believe that it shall arise with the body, and that those which are dead in the same, shall arise again clothed in a Cordelier. For it shall not be then time to make masks and dance the moorish. There is neither the habit of Francis, Dominic, nor of any Monk whatsoever he be, nor any thing that man can muent and dream, which can serve us any thing before the face of that great Judge 1of the quick & of the dead, no more then the Fig leans served Adam for to cover him before him, but that he will see all our filthiness and abominations, if they he not covered and hid with the righteousness and innocency of Jesus Christ. Wherefore if we will appear clothed and not naked before his majesty, it must be that he himself do cut out and make the apparel and habit, wherewith we must be clothed, as he did make unto Adam 2and and Eve. And therefore we must follow the counsel of the Apostle, who exhorteth us to put off the old man, and to put on, not y• habit of Francis or Dominic, but our Lur Lord Jesus Christ. For that is an habit which 3serveth both to the body and to the soul, and which delivereth from the judgement of god. That is the holy water, the lights, bells, sencings and candles, which delivereth our bodies & souls from the power of the serpent, whose head he hath broken. That is the water of life, 4which raiseth us unto eternal life: which washeth and maketh clean our consciences. That is the true fire of Purgatory, and furnace in which the old Adam is melted and made new, and the new man purged from all his filthiness and slimes. Wherefore I do ⟨p. 107⟩give counsel unto you all, that you take good heed that such treasure be not stolen from you, and that you trust not to the good deeds which those that be alive shall do for you after that you are dead: