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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. Those words are very clear, not only for to prove the prayers for the dead, but also the sacrifice of the altar.
Thomas. Those wordes are very cléere, not onely for to proue the prayers for the dead, but also the sacrifice of the •ulter.
Eusebius. One cannot find a thing more clearer. For it openeth so plainly all the matter particularly, and goeth before the objections & replyings, which those that do speak against it might make. For it divideth the divers manners to live, and divers merits of men: And giveth 1to understand, that it must be he which would that such good deeds should be profitable unto him after his death, should be here conducted in such sort, that they may profit him: that is to say, that it must be that he dye confessed and repentant. And he speaketh not only this in this place, but in many other like, amongest which he addeth yet this: that notwithstanding that that which we do for the dead, profit not all those, for whom we do them. Yet nevertheless because we do not know to whom it profiteth. we must do them to all, y• we leave none out. For it is a great deal better that those to whom it can neither profit nor hurt, should have more then they need, then to want any thing unto those which have need. And in the same book he saith moreover: we do read in the second book of the Maccabees, that sacrifice was offered for the dead, but when one readeth them not in the ancient scriptures, the authority of the universal Church is not little, the which hath this custom, that in the prayers of the Priests, which they do make unto God at his altar, the recommendation of the souls hath also his place. And did 2not Monica the Mother of Saint Augustine, require that they should make remembrance of her in the sacrament of the altar? For that cause hath Saint Gregory written, that the souls of the dead are delivered in scure manners ⟨p. 177⟩