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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. Nevertheless I cannot understand, upon what place of the Scripture that custom hath taken his 1foundation, except upon the traditions of the Pharisees and the washings of the Jews or Paynims, and upon the doctrine of Persius, saying. And for to do as I thee bid fulfil this just request In Tiber early plunge thy head, even twice or thrice at lest, And take the river water then, and all besprinkle thee, By force and virtue of the which, the night shall purged be.
Hillarius. Neuerthelesse I cannot vnderstande, vppon what place of the Scripture that custome hath taken his 1foundation, except vppon the traditions of the Pharises and the washings of the Iews or Panims, and vpon the doctrine of Persius, saying. And for to doe as I thee bid fulfill this iust request In Tiber early plunge thy head, euen twise or thrise at lest, And take the riuer water then, and all besprinckle thee, By force and vertue of the which, the night shall purged bee.
Theophilus. But when one hath grievously sinned, can the water purge and make him clean? I doubt not but that that superstition is yet of that which is left of the error of those who altogether did condemn and forbid marriage. But yet what superstition soever might have been in some of the ancients, yet nevertheless they forbid not the marriage, nor the espousals, unto those which were not married, in what time soever it were, as afterwards it was forbidden by their successors,