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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. He hath hit the nail on the head. Wherefore 1you do no wrong friend Eusebius, in saying that you would live as your predecessors: For those old Idolatrous Romans are your true predecessors, sith that you will follow them, & not yt Prophets & Apostles of Jesus Christ: And even as those fictions, appearing of spirits & 2shadows; served among the Paynims but for to nourish, keep and confirm the Idolatry? even so is it at this 3day among the Papists. In stead that yt Romans ought to acknowledge & confess that God punished them, because of their abominable Idolatry, msatlable avarice, stealths violences, murders & shedding of mans blood, which was shed by them through out the universal world, they have rather presumed & thought, that those evils. happened unto them, because that they had not well done their duty towards yt souls of yt dead, that is to save, because that they had ⟨p. 136⟩not well served & honoured yt devil as he would be: unto whom they did make those sacrifices, not unto God, sith that of him they had not received commandment, nor such laws & ordinances.
Theophilus. He hath hit the nayle on the head. Wherfore 1you do no wronge friend Eusebius, in saying yt you would liue as your predecessors: For those olde Idolatrous Romaines are your true predecessors, sith that you will follow them, & not yt Prophets & Apostles of Iesus Christ: And euen as those fictions, appearing of spirites & 2shadowes; serued among the Panyins but for to nourish, keepe and confirme the Idolatrie? euen so is it at this 3day amonge the Papists. In steede that yt Romaines ought to acknowledge & confelse that God punished thē, bicause of their abhominable Idolatrie, msatlable auarice, stelthes violences, murthers & sheading of mans bloud, which was shed by them thorow out the universall worlde, they haue rather presumed & thought, yt those euils. happened unto thēe, bicause yt they had not wei done their duety towards yt soules of yt dead, yt is to save, bicause yt they had