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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.
Theophilus. It is most true, that God commanded 1the Priests of the old law, that the fire of the burnt offering or holocaust should be always kept burning in the Temple. But that was to signify, that the fire of Jesus Christ, and his offering and sacrifice is eternal, and sufficient for to purge all the sins of the world and that 2we ought all to be partakers of his cross & tribulations which are signified by the fire in the Scripture: and we ought all to travail as much as lieth in us, to keep and maintain that fire of Jesus Christ: the evangelical ministry and the faith in his death and passion in the Christian Church. Forasmuch then as Jesus Christ hath perfectly and wholly accomplished and fulfilled that which by that fire was signified, & ye it must be accomplished in us spiritually, not in outward appearance, what need have we to invent new ceremonies and new Jewishness: were ⟨p. 158⟩it not as good to keep them to the old, sith that they will play the Jew with the Jews?
Theophilus. It is moste true, that God commaunded 1the Priests of the olde law, that the fire of the bournt offring or holocauste should be alwayes kept burning in the Temple. But that was to signifie, that the fire of Iesus Christ, and his offring and sacrifice is eternall, and sufficient for to purge all the sinnes of the world and that 2we ought all to bee pertakers of his crosse & tribulations which are signified by the fire in the Scripture: and wée ought all to trauaile as much as lieth in vs, to kéepe and mainteine that fire of Iesus Christ: the euangelicall mynistry and the faith in his death and passion in the Christian Church. For asmuch then as Iesus Christ hath perfectly and wholy accomplshed and fulfilled that whiche by that fyre was signified, & ye it must be accompilshed in vs spiritually, not in outward appearance, what néed haue wee to inuent new ceremonies and new Iewishnes: were ⟨p. 158⟩