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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.
And therefore even as the Lord leaveth us to be man, and suffereth our humane affections, which have some agreeing with his nature, and are the seed and pricks of virtues, so will he not suffer them to flow over, or arise above the limits of reason and honesty, as we have already touched in another place. The same then that the 1Hebrews and Israelites had some certain number of days, for to mourn and lament their parents and friends that were dead, was not for to restrain every one generally and particularly to lament and mourn one so many days, without adding or diminishing any, as if the number of the days were necessary; or that it containeth any religion and holiness in it: but to the end that those which should mourn and lament, if one could not keep them from it altogether, without doing great biolence to their affections, at the leastwise, they should not pass that limit and time, which was bsed and prescribed, and which was long enough and sufficient, for to satisfy their heart and to mitigate their sorrow and heaviness. ⟨image 128⟩Wherefore I doubt not but that Saint Ambrose had 2regard unto that honesty and modesty, not for to induce the christian people unto Jewishness, but to follow rather the example of the holy Patriarchs and Prophets, then of the Paynims. As we may manifestly judge by his own words, without seeking the gloss and interpretation any further. For first of all he exhorted not yt people to play unto god for the soul of Theodosius, but witnesseth evidently, ye he accounteth & holdeth him to be saved, & affirmeth many times ye his soul is at rest, in light & felicity with Jesus Christ his Lord. Also he teacheth not the people to in uocate & pray unto him, not withstanding ye he holdeth him as a saint in the kingdom of god: but admonisheth to pay unto the children, ye which they do owe unto the father, saying: they owe him more after he is dead, then when he was living, After wards declareth unto them the means how they ought to acquit & order themselves towards their good Prince, after his death: that is, in commending his young children whom he hath left to be heirs of the Cmpire, and that they declare towards them the fidelity, faith, loyalty, and love that they had towards their father.