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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.
Eusebius. But you show not the cause, wherefore they observed certain days for to finish their funerals & mournings.
Eusebius. But you shew not ye cause, wherefore they obserued certaine daies for to finish their funerals & mournings.
Theophilus. I have already answered thee, that they 1did not the same for any superstition that they had to the number as the Paynims. For the Patriarchs & Prophets were not so much of the sect of Pythagoras, nor such great observers of the numbers, as the Papistical doctors, and 2namely Durand, who yielding the reason wherefore the Christians keep certain days dedicated to the commemoration of the dead, declareth the mysteries contained in the number of them, and hath written after this manner. Note that some celebrate the memory of the dead 3the third day, for to represent the burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, or in the honour of the Trinity. Others cause Masses to be song the seventh day, or seven days continually. Afterwards they prove that the same is taken of that place which is written in the book of Numbers: that he which shall touch the body of a dead man, shall be defiled and unclean seven days. Is not the 4same very fit for to prove the seven days feast of the Priests? I do omit a thousand other dreams, which are more mad, that one cannot believe them. He practiseth a Philosophy and a Theology likewise upon the ninth, third and fourth and the day of the years mind, to which he maketh those numbers better to agree, then of ware, and better then ever Pythagoras did. For his Philosophy had more reason and doctrine. But that which the Israelites did, I think that the same was none otherwise, but for an honesty and civility which ought to be among the people of God. For they had no express law, nor commandment proper for the same, & ye should make them to be subject unto them And although they had a commandment, as they have of their other ceremonial and