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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. Thou wilt make us here by and by holy water. Sith that thou hast made the Exorcism, sing now the Oremus.
Hillarius. Thou wilt make vs here by and by holye water. Sith that thou hast made the Exorcisine, sing nowe the Oremus.
Theophilus. There are no less blasphemies in it: But sith that thou wilt have it thou shalt. O eternal God, altogether mighty, we humbly invocate and call upon thy infinite clemency, that it would please thee to bless † and sanctify † this creature of Salt, the which thou hast given for the use of mankind, to the end that it may be unto all those which will take it, health of soul and body, and that all that which shall be touched with the same or sprinkled, should be without any filth, and all the assault and combat of the spiritual enemy.
Theophilus. There are no lesse blasphemics in it: But sith that thou wilt haue it thou shalt. O eternall God, altogether mightie, we humbly innocate and call vpon thy infinite clemency, that it would please thée to blesse † and sanctifie † this creature of Salt, the which thou hast giuē for the vse of mankinde, to the ende that it may bée vnto all those which will take it, helth of soule and body, and yt all that which shalbée touched with the same or sprinkled, should bee without any filth, and all the assault and cembat of the spirituall enemie.
Hillarius. I have heard many Priests, who in steed to say: Careatomni immundicia, do say, Careat omni mundicia. But they do use the figure which the Grammarians do call, Apheresis: or for to speak better, the figure called the ignorance of the Grammar. I do verily think that all that which they sprinkle abideth well according to the prayer that they make, without cleanness. Wherefore those whom they do sprinkle, when they make their great Asperges me, may very well say, as Valentinian said who was the chief Captain in the Court of Julian the Apostate, but yet nevertheless a good Christian and afterwards chosen Emperor.