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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.
Wherefore I give more credit, unto those which have written that Pope Pelagius hath been the author, inventor and promoter of those suffrages and prayers, the which we see daily yet in use among the Christians, and we call them the good deeds for the dead, then to any of those which have followed the Apostles.
Wherefore I giue more credite, vnto those whiche haue written that Pope Pelagius hath bene the author, inuentor and promoter of those suffrages and prayers, the which we sée dayly yet in vse amonge the Christians, and we call them the good déedes for the dead, then to any of those which haue followed the Apostles.
Eusebius. If you had read over and ruminated the ancient doctors of the Church, you shall not find that doctrine so new, but you would speak otherwise and should know that the Church hath followed it of long time before that Pelagius or Saint Gregory were borne. §Obiection.1Wherefore then did Saint Ambrose make mention, writing of the death of the Emperor Theodosius, of the first, seventh, thirty and forty day that the Church did celebrate, making remembrance of the dead, and for what cause they did the same? of whom the words are written in the decrees after this manner. Because that 2some have used to observe the third caye, other some the seventh, and others the thirty in the office of the dead. Let us consider what thing that lesson in the scripture teacheth us. It saith: After that Jacob was dead, Joseph commanded 3his servants that they should bury him: And the 4children of Israel buried him and the forty days being accomplished, for so were the days of the burial counted & they lamented seven days. We ought to follow that solemnity, the which the holy scripture describeth unto us It is also written after this manner in Deuteronomium.