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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. There is yet another point, ye is, that the fire is the principal creator of the Priests God. For without it they cannot seeth nor heat any thing. It hath power to make & unmake, as it hath been well showed forth in the 1year of our Lord. 1542. in a little billage which is iii, miles from Castres in Languedoc, where the poor white god was burned, upon holy Thursday, at night, with all his Tabernacle, his house and all the Tapestry work and hangings.
Hillarius. There is yet another point, ye is, that the fire is ye principall creator of the Priests God. For without it they cannot seeth nor heate any thing. It hath power to make & unmake, as it hath bene well shewed foorth in the 1yere of our Lord. 1542. in a litle billage which is iii, miles from Castres in Languidoc, where ye poore whyte god was burned, upon holy Thursoay, atnight, with all his Tabernacle, his house and al the Tepistry woork and hangings.
- 1A true lustory of the Priests god burned.A true lustory of the Priestes god burned.
Thomas. Now happened that great misfortune?
Hillarius. Nou must understand, ye that night before the day of holy friday, they had a custom that all the families & householders went to bisit the poor god, which was there detained & kept prisoner, with a great number of Tapers, torches & lamps which they carried great devotion, saying: let bs go see our God, which is at rest.