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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.
For wherein do these benedictions and blessings differ from the charms and conjurations of sorcerers and witches, aswell as the Exorcism and adjuration of their holy water and Salt, which they put into it? What doeth that Exorcism and adjuration signify? I exercise and adjure thee, thou Creature of Salt, by the living †GOD, by the true †GOD, by the holy †GOD by the GOD which commanded that thou shouldest be put into the water, by the Prophet Elisha for to heal the sterility and barrenness of the waters, to the end thou be made an adjured Salt, to the health of them that believe, to the end that thou mayst be unto all those which will take thee, health of soul and body, and that all fantasy, malice, dsuhtyle craft of the devil may avoid, and depart, from the place where thou shalt be shed abroad, ⟨image 159⟩and all unclean spirit adjured, by him which shall judge the quick and the dead, and the world with fire.
For wherein doe these benedictions and blessings dyffer from the charmes and coniuratyons of sorcerers and witches, aswell as the Exorcisme and adiuration of their holy water and Salte, whiche they put into it? What doeth that Exorcisine and adiuration signiste? I exercise and adiure thee, thou Creature of Salte, by the liuing †GOD, by the true †GOD, by the holy †GOD by the GOD which comnaunded that thou shouldest bee put into the water, by the Prophet Eliseus for to heale the sterilitie and barrennes of the waters, to the ende thou be made an adiured Salt, to the health of them that beleeue, to the ende that thou mayst be unto all those which will take thée, health of soule and bodye, and that all fantasie, malyce, dsuhtyle crafte of the diuell maye auoyde, and depart, from the place where thou shalt bee sheade abrcade,