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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. The resolution was clerk like, & like a good Theologian. But what was done in the end with these which burned it and suffered it to be burned.
Thomas. The resolution was clarke like, & like a good Theologian. But what was done in the end with these which burned it and suffred it to be burned.
Hillarius. There was great debate between y• Priests and the procurators of the Temple. For the Priest did lay the fault upon the procurators. The procurators on the contrary, confessed that they had the charge of the Temple, but not of the body of God, which would not suffer him to be touched and handled but of the Priests. And said, that although they had been present, yet they durst not take 1him from the fire. Yet nevertheless I think that if they had seen that goodly stir they should have been enforced to have taken him out, and would have had some compassion of him. They would have done as Cecilius Metellus, who seeing the fire kindled in the Temple of Vesta, wherein was the Palladium in great danger to be burned, did cast himself in the middest of the slamming fire for to save it, or other wise it had been burned, as the holy hand-kerchief of Chambery. Metellus made it a great conscience to touch it with his hand, because that ⟨p. 161⟩it was not permitted to men to enter into that holy Reliquary, nor to approach or come near that holy Palladium, but for the holy Virgins Vestals, the Nuns of Vesta. But when he perceived that they could do nothing but weep, without helping any thing at all, he adventured himself, for to deliver it from the fire, the which did so burn his eyes, that he did lose his sight.2
Hillarius. There was great debate betweene y Priests and the procurors of the Temple. For the Priest did lay the fault vpon the procurors. The procurors on the contrary, confessed that they had the charge of the Temple, but not of the body of God, which would not suffer him to be touched and handled but of the Priests. And said, that although they had bene present, yet they durst not take