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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. No truly, if it be truly & without feignedness, and that in stead of chastity, there be not secretness and privinesse, and that one do not receive the rule 1and the proverb of the Monks, saying: Si non caste tamen caute: that is, if not chastely, yet let it be privily.
Hillarius. No truely, if it bée truely & wythout saynednesse, and that in stéede of chastitie, there bée not secrtnesse and priuinesse, and that one doo not receiue the rule 1and the prouerbe of the Moonkes, saying: Si non caste tamen caute: that is, if not chastlye, yet let it bée priuely.
- 1Chastity and secretness. The Monkish proverbChastitie and secretnesse. The Monkish prouerbe
Theophilus. So do I understand it. But on the contrary, as soon as one cometh to restrain the faithful more then God would, and that the Apostle durst not take it in hand, there is no man of so great authority that I can allow. For we cannot deny, but that among the ancients there were some more rigorous and contrary unto marriage then was lawful, and chiefly 1Hierome, who so much praised virginity and widowhood, that oftentimes he did injury unto marriage: And it seemeth that he would condemn it. As it appeared in his writings against Jovimanus and many others. 2Also thou canst not excuse Gregory of superstition, who saith, that the man which sleepeth with his own wife, ought not to enter into the Church, except that he be first washed with water, because that although that the