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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.
Eusebius. If I would display and show forth all that that I might allege, aswell of the new and late Doctors as of the ancient, I should aswell set them a work, as Hillarius did vaunt himself of late to have set me on work, but I have not determined to allege others, but of the most ancientest and of those which are of more greater authority in the church, by the which I will plainly prove, that that which we do now in the favour of the dead, descended from the primitive Church and from the 1traditions of the Apostles. For if I would bring forth the Doctors of late days, they would by and by reject ⟨image 182⟩and despise their authority, and would make none account of it: But when I shall have proved, that the ancient Doctors of the Church are on our side, I shall by and by allow and confirm the authority and witness of the late Doctors, and will more easelier stop their mouths: except they be so past shame, that they care leprove and condemn all the holy men and Pillars of the Church, which have shored and held it up in the time of the Apostles, and to affirm that there are not so many good men and so wise and learned as they are.
Eusebius. If I would display and shew foorth all that that I might alleadge, aswel of the new and late Doctors as of the aun•ient, I should aswell set them a worke, as Hillarius did vaunt himselfe of late to haue set mée on worke, but I haue not determined to alleadge others, but of the most auncientest and of those whiche are of more greater authorite in the church, by the which I will plainly proue, that that which we doe now in the fauour of the dead, descended from the primatiue Churche and from the 1traditions of the Apostles. For if I would bring foorth the Doctors of late dayes, they would by and by reicete ⟨image 182⟩and despise their authoritie, and woulde make none accompte of it: But when I shall haue proued, that the auncient Doctors of the Churche are on our side, I shall by and by allow and confirme the authoritie and witnesse of the late Doctors, and will more easelier stoppe their mouthes: except they bée so past shame, that they care leproue and condemne all the holy men and Pillers of the Church, which haue shored and held it vppe in the time of the Apostles, and to affirme that there are not so manye good men and so wise and learned as they are.