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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. I believe that at the leastwise Eusebius ⟨image 145⟩will not deem that which their own books do witness and confirm, namely Platine, Durand and Rergomeusis, 1witnessing the same, how that first of all Pope Boniface the fourth, demanded that Temple of the Emperor Phocas, who after that he had obtained it, dedicated it unto our Lady, and to all the Martyrs, and commanded that the feast should be celebrated the twelve day of the month of May, in the honour of the Mirgin Mary and of all the Martyrs, for that cause it was called the feast of the Dhrgin Mary unto the Spartyrs, because that then the feasts of the Confessors was not then made, until the time of Pope Gregory the fourth, who transported and changed that feast, from the twelve of Pay, unto the first day of November, and there dedicated not only unto the Apostles and Martyrs, but also unto the Trinity, unto all the Angels, Confessors, Saints and Saints in Paradise. And this was done about the year 831. Now it is good reason, sith that all the Saints and Saints of Paradise have their feast, that the orc souls of Purgatory should have theirs also. For they have a great deal more need then the Saints which are already at rest, for to comfort and refresh them a little. And therefore Odillo, that holy Abbot of Saint 2Cluny moved with pity & compassion, found and ordained the first, that after the feast of all Saints, the commemoration of the dead should be also celebrated, first in Burgundy, the which Pope John the sixteen allowed, and commanded to be observed throughout the other churches, about the year 982. Wherefore thou mayest know and judge whether that such Ceremonies and manner of doings be very ancient, and whether Jesus Christ and his Apostles, or the ancient Fathers have been the Authors and inventors of them: and whether they are taken of their imitation. And to the tend thou shouldest have better devotion unto the feast, I would gladly thou shouldest understand, that it hath been the sanctity and vertueo of that ⟨p. 139⟩Pope John, who hath allowed it and recommended and betoo'se it to his Churches, and the praises that Platine 3