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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.
Thomas. Behold a merry Jest to laughed at, at Caster.
Thomas. Behold a mery Iest to laught at, at Caster.
Hillarius. You laugh at it, but the holy fathers do say things which are not so good as that, and your priests do make miracles. which are not yet so subtle, by the which yet nevertheless the poor people are abused. But let us consider a little wherein the Papists differ from the one 1and the other of which we have spoken off, if they have not the fire and the water for their gods. For what doth signify the benediction and consecration of the Are which they make upon Caster even, with their magical ceremonies? For at the beginning of divine service, all the sice which is in the Temple must be put out. Afterwards they must a new, by striking upon a stone with ⟨image 164⟩a piece of steel, or with a Crystal set against the sun: Afterwards they must keep it, not with all kinds of wood, but with the branches of the Vine. There is here more to do then in the charms of the Enchanters. And to what end do all those sorceries serve?
Hillarius. You laughe at it, but the holy fathers do say things which are not so good as that, and your preists do make miracles. which are not yet so subtile, by the which yet neuertheles the poore people are abused. But let vs consider a little wherein the Papists differ from the one 1and the other of whiche we haue spoken off, if they haue not the fyre and the water for their gods. For what doth signifie the benediction and consecration of the Are which they make vpon Caster euen, with their magical ceremonies? For at the beginning of diuine seruice, all the sice which is in the Temple must be put out. Afterwardes they must a newe, by striking vppon a stone wyth