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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.
¶ THE FOURTH DIALOGUE which is called the Age of the Mass and of Purgatory.
¶ THE FOVRTH DIALOGVE which is called the Age of the Masse and of Purgatory.
Thomas. As far as I can presume by the words which I have heard of Eusebius, I trust that I shall hear you to bring forth a matter, the which will please me well, & which I desire greatly to understand. For I see daily, that men do blame you, which are taken and accounted for Heretics, to corrupt & pervert the sense of the holy Scriptures. Men do unto you this honour, to say, that you will not receive the witness nor the authority, but of the holy Scripture, and that you do prove by the same all that which you put forth, hut all the evil is in this, that you take them to your advantage, and turn and wrest them to your sense and carnal intelligence, and therefore you will not receive the expositions of the good Doctors. But I will see now, how you can bear it, and whether the Doctors of the Church are of our side or on yours. And therefore I pray thee Eusebius, that thou do pursue thine enterprise, and that thou show forth so good places, that they cannot be easily plucked from thy hands, as they have done those which thou hast already taken of Saint Ambrose.
THomas. As farre as I can presume by the words which I haue heard of Eusebius, I trust that I shal heare you to bring foorth a matter, the which will please mée wel, & which I desire greatly to vnderstand. For I sée dayly, that men do blame you, which are taken and accompted for Heretickes, to corrupt & peruert the sence of the holy Scriptures. Men doe vnto you this honour, to say, that you will not receiue the witnesse nor the authoritie, but of the holy Scripture, and that you doe proue by the same all that which you put foorth, hut all the euil is in this, that you take them to your aduan̄tage, and turne and wrest them to your sence and carnall intelligence, and therefore you will not receiue the expositions of the good Doctors. But I will sée now, howe you canne beare it, and whether the Doctors of the Churche are of our side or on yours. And therefore I pray thée Eusebius, yt thou doe pursue thine enterprise, and that thou shew forth so good places, that they cannot be easely plucked from thy hands, as they haue done those which thou hast alreadye taken of Sainct Ambrose.