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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. He ought also to add, that the weepings, lamentations & sower looks that they do make in their temples the Passion week, the which they call the great & holy week, & chiefly the apish tricks of the holy Friday, are proceeded from yt original & beginning. For as yt women celebrated the Cereals & Proserpinales with lamentations, representing the sorrow which Ceres did take because of her daughter Proserpina which was ravished, & in like manner the Adoniales, in yt honour of Venus, bewailing and lamenting her friend Adonis which was killed. Doth it not also seem that they would in the virgin Mary & Jesus Christ her son, renew & set up again all these old superstitions, nether more nor less then if yt holy virgin were Ceres, Venus, or Isis: & Jesus Christ Adonis, or 1Osiris? For what difference is there between their divine service by yt which they would counterfeit the death & passion of Jesus Christ, and the same which the ancient Idolaters did make in the honour of Adonis and Osiris? For they do celebrate every year in the month of June the feast, and in remembrance of that that Adonis 2was killed, and torn in pieced of a wild Bore, they beat and strike themselves every year, until the blood cometh forth, and make great sorrow and lamentations sh••ow out the whole country. And after that they have made an end of beating themselves & weeping, they bid yt ⟨image 157⟩office after Adonis, even as after those that be dead. Afterwards the next day they did say that he was alive again, and that they lifted him up on hie in the air, and did shave their heads, even as the Egyptians did when Apis was dead among them, and that they did celebrate the feast of Osiris, which is also called Serapis For first 3of all the Priests of yt Goddess lsis do shave their heads and their beards and strike their breasts, and do lament, even as Isis lamented, when she had lost but little son Osiris. Afterwards, the child was brought again, as though he had been found, and then all the sorrow was changed into joy. Therefore the Poet cain calleth him Osiris, who is never searched for enough.