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

Theophilus. I doubt not, but that the same is that same Idolatry which Ezekiel rebuked, speaking of the women which wept for Thamus: as Saint Hieromecrpoundeth ¹it, or at the leastwise altogether the like.

Theophilus. I doubt not, but that the same is that same Idolatry which Ezechiell rebuked, speaking of the woemen which wept for Thamus: as Saint Hieromecrpoundeth ¹it, or at the leastwise altogether the like.

1. 1Thammus. Eze. 8. c. 14

Hillarius. Now mark & consider all the train that our Priests do hold upon good friday. And thou wilt say that ¹they have lost Jesus Christ, or that he is dead, and that they would bury him. And afterwarded a day after that ²Caster is come, Alleluia, whom they have buried, is raised again, and there is no more question, but to laugh and rejoice, and to celebrate the feast which the Paynims do call Hilaria, that is to say, the joyful, and tt,at they do celebrate ³it in the honour of the God Kis, in laughing and rejoicing, and rehearsing some good thing to laugh at, as yt ⁴holy fathers do in their Sermons, on yt feasts of Caster, when they do give the sweet nosegays unto the Ladies, of which custom are proceeded yt books of De risu Paschalt, for to a waken their Auditories, and the better to sanctify the feast of the God Alleluia, with whom they do triumph all the year.