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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.
Eusebius. Hath Isidore ben of an other opinion, then the rest of the Christian Doctors, touching this matter?
Eusebius. Hath Isydore ben of an other opinion, then the rest of the Christian Doctors, touching this matter?
Theophilus. There is none among the Christians which doubteth that there is an hell, seeing that the holy Scripture rendereth so sure and undoubtful a testimony with the which we ought to content our selves, not willing to know any 1further, then it hath revealed it unto us. It ought to suffice us which Jesus Christ witnesseth unto us, that there is an hell of eternal & unquenchable fire, where the worm dieth not, but where there is everlasting horror, weeping & gua hing of teeth: we need not to enquire of the place: for I ⟨p. 23⟩think there is none which desireth to go thither. And therefore we have need to pray unto GOD, that it would please him to give us his grace to know his will, and to be able to accomplish it through his son Jesus Christ, to the end we may avoid that hell fire and extreme darkness. We need not much to stay to know in what place hell is, 2whether it is in the centre of y• earth, according to the common opinion of the Doctors & of Plato, which saith, y• it is in the depth of the earth: or whether it is under the earth in the country of the Antipodes, according to the opinion of Isidore, who saith that after the day of judgement, the Sun and the Moon shall keep themselves so steadfast in heaven that they shall no more turn round about the earth, but give their light and brightness, only in that part of the world in y• which we dwell, and that the damned shall be all sent away under the earth, into those horrible darkness, and into those places, in the which at this day, some men do think, that the Antipodes do dwell.