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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.
Hillarius. You may already perceive, that Plutus and ⟨image 150⟩Pluto were brethren: or at the least cousin Germans: saving that the one reigned upon the earth, and the other underneath the earth. Now forasmuch as that GOD, whether you call him Mammon, Plutus, Pluto, Aesculanus, or Pecunia, be the Author, and law giver of all those laws, by good right and reason he may dispense with them. And when they have his dispensation, there remaineth no more sin, as in respect of the Pope. For he dispenseth with more greater things, insomuch that he will not suffer the use of marriage, to eat flesh, and white meats, but that one had need, to sell GOD, to eat, and to do that he would doc: I mean the Gods, that he himself hath made, and of which his Priests call themselves the makers, which yet nevertheless are but the creatures of the 1Pope: Do not the most greatest Cardinals which for such do acknowledge and confess themselves. Wherein there standeth a marvellous case, the which Solin hath forgotten, when that he made his book of the marvels and wounders of the world. For that is a case the like whereof, was never seen, that the Creator, should be a Creature, and the Creature, a Creator: as it appeareth by that that the Pope is the Creator of the Cardinals, his Creatures: Afterwards the Cardinals, his Creatures are Creators of their Creator? For they do create and make the Pope. After the same manner would they dce with their God which they make and unmake, afterwards do make him again as they list.
Hillarius. You may already perceiue, that Plutus and ⟨image 150⟩Pluto were bretheren: or at the least cosin Germaines: sauinge that the one reigned vppon the earth, and the other vnderneath the earthe. Nowe forasmuche as that GOD, whether you call him Mammon, Plutus, Pluto, Aesculanus, or Pecunia, bée the Authoure, and lawe gyuer of all those lawes, by good right and reason hee maye dyspence with them. And when they haue his dispensation, there remayneth no more sinne, as in respecte of the Pope. For hee dispenseth with more greater things, insomuch that hée will not suffer the vse of mariage, to eate flesh, and white meates, but that one hadde néede, to sell GOD, to eate, and to doe that hee woulde doc: I meane the Gods, that hee himselfe hathe made, and of whiche his Priestes call themselues the makers, whiche yet neuerthelesse are but the creatures of the