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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. Wherefore do you demand the cause, sith that it hath been already alleged by thine own self, reciting the words of Durand? Do you think that that cause ought to suffice, least it should not seem that the Christians do follow yt Paynims, & allow their manner or doings?
Eusebius. Wherfore do you demaund the cause, sith that it hath bene already alleadged by thine owne self, reciting the wordes of Durand? Do you thinke that that cause ought to suffice, least it should not séeme yt the Christians do follow yt Panims, & allow their manner or doings?
Hilla. Truly you look well to your business, & have well provided for your affairs. Me thinketh that that devil, who hath ben yt author of your superstitions & idolatries, in very deed hath ben a great Louldave, & of a slothful spirit, if he had any judgement in men with whom he had to do, & if god by his just judgement had not taken from them their sense & understanding. For what mask hath he taken for to disguise himself withal to change one day into an other? what difference is there, if you do yt same things. which were used among the Paynims, saving that you do change the day? Which is best, either to blaspheme God the third, seventh, thirty and forty day, or the fourth, ninth, tenth, or fifth? Can one dishonour and blaspheme him more honestly in the one of those days then in the other. What do I care what day you take, if you commit the same faults? As touching the days, you have 1chosen those same of the Jews. As touching the superstition, you do follow the same of the Paynims: & desiring to show that you are neither Jew nor Panim, you declare, that you are less christians: but that you have a sect & a new law like unto that of Mahomet, who have not followed altogether 2neither that of the Jews, & Paynims, nor yet that of the Christians: But made one, taking out of all those together that it pleased him, and hath made a pottage,