A14461:825
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.
If the blood of Dren and of Goats and the ashes of an Heifer, when it was sprinkled, purified the unclean, as touching the purifying of the flesh: Now much more shall the blood of Christ (which through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to GOD) purge your consciences from dead works, for to serve the living God? In stead that the Apostle saith, the blood of Jesus Christ, those here do put the salt the water. But I will argue and reason after an other sort against Alexander, If the ashes of an Heifer and the holy water that they do make, by the ordinance and commandment of God, cannot purge the conscience, and can screw but for a certain carnal purification, for to keep certain discipline in the Jewish Church, and to prefigurate the true purgation which by the blood of Jesus Christ ought to be in the Christian Church, but it was necessary, that the only son of God should shed out his own blood, which only hath that virtue, how the salt & the salted water conjured by the priests, without having either law, commandment or promise of God do it better.
If the bloude of Dren and of Goats and the asshes of an Heyfer, when it was sprinckeled, puryfied the vncleane, as touching the purifying of the flesh: Nowe much more shall the bloud of Christe (whiche thorowe the eternall spyrite, offered himselfe wythout spotte to GOD) purge your consciences from dead woorks, for to serue the liuing God? In stéede that the Apostle sayth, the bloud of Iesus Christ, those héere doe put the salt the water. But I wyll argue and reason after an other sorte agaynst Alexander, If the asshes of an Heyfer and the holy water that they doe make, by the ordinaunce and commaundement of God, cannot purge the conscience, and can scrue but for a certeyne carnall purification, for to kéepe certeyne discipline in the Iewish Churche, and to prefigurate the true purgation which by the bloud of Iesus Christe ought to be in the Christian Churche, but it was necessary, that the onely sonne of God shoulde shed out his owne bloud, which onely hath that vertue, how the salt & the salted water coniured by the priests, without hauing either law, commaundement or promise of God do it better.