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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. As much, as is between the work of a man and of an Ape.
Hillarius. As much, as is betwéene the worke of a man and of an Ape.
Theophilus. It is no lye. For that which the ancients 1did, they did it with a good heart, and not by outward gestures. They did return again unto God by ⟨image 176⟩true repentance, confession of their sins, and amendment of life. They made no Shrovetide nor did burst themselves with eating and drinking. They did not give themselves to all dissolutions, for to go the next day to have a few ashes put upon their foreheads, as though they would play a Mask or a Jest, and to mock with God and with men. They abstained 2not only from certain meats until noon, for to stuff and fill themselves afterwards with other meats, and to eat until they burst: But they abstained first form vice and sin, and afterwards from all pleasures, delights and pomps. They abstained from eating and drinking all a day until night, and sometime continued their prayers until two of their own voluntary will and good heart, when they did know that it was expedient for them so to do, or for to macerate and chastise their body: or when they did see the furor and anger of GOD kindled against their sins: or when they had any great matter of weight to do, to the which faith is greatly required, and the aid and assistance of GOD, and for to demand and obtain, the prayer and orison, the which requireth 3sobriety and abstinence, to the end the spirit be more free, fervent, and more zealous to GOD. But they had no law, for to make difference between meat and meat, other then that of Moses: nor which forbiddeth them flesh, which by the same was permitted them: nor that they bound them unto certain days, or certain meats, and to fast under pain of deadly sin.