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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. That same of the heretics Manicheans, 1who have substituted new Ceremonies as those here, and bave forbidden marriage, and the use of certain meats, affirming that by those things, one obtaineth the holy ⟨p. 141⟩Ghost, whom also Tatianus hath followed, who was the author and Prince of the sect of the Eucratistes, which 2were called by that name because they abstained from wines and from certain meats and from marriage. For Eucratistes signifieth as much as sober, the which Severus hath augmented, of whom they are called also Severians.3
Theophilus. That same of the heretickes Manacheans, 1who haue sustituted new Ceremonies as those heere, and baue forbidden mariage, and the vse of certayne meates, affirming that by those thinges, one obtayneth the holye ⟨p. 141⟩Ghost, whom also Tatianus hath followed, who was the authoure and Prince of the secte of the Eucratistes, which 2were called by that name bicause they abstained from wines and from certaine meates and from mariage. For Eucratistes signifieth asuch as sober, the which Seuerus hath augmented, of whome they are called also Seuerians.3
- 1Manicheans. August. de he••• ad quid […] dema. Call. Rho let aut, 26. ••, 20Manicheans. August. de he••• ad quid 〈…〉 dema. Cal. Rho let aut, 26. , 20