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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.
But what service do w•e unto him? Do we not rather serve our selves and our affections, making unto us a God altogether like unto our selves, delighting our selves in the like vanities? As much is happened unto us about the dead.1
But what seruice doe w•e vnto him? Doe we not rather serue our selues and our affections, making vnto vs a God altogether like vnto our selues, deliting our selues in the like vanities? As much is happened vnto vs aboute the dead.1
- 1Foolish assestiō towards y• dead.Foolissh assestiō towards y• dead.
Hillarius. When a man is angry, yet it doth him much ⟨p. 181⟩good to revenge himself upon some one, for to make him pass away his sorrow and anger, although he do receive no great profit. Even so when a man is in sorrow and beavines, for the death of his friend, he must have some solace and comfort, for to comfort his sorrow & heaviness. And thereof it came that the woman that loveth well her husband, or the mother, her child, oftentimes cannot refrain to kiss them after that they shall be dead, or to embrace them, & some time with more greater affection, then ever she did during the time that he lived. But whereto profiteth all that, either to the quick or dead?
Hillarius. When a man is angry, yet it doth him much ⟨p. 181⟩good to reuenge himselfe vpon some one, for to make hym passe away his sorrow and anger, although hée do receiue no great profit. Euen so when a man is in sorrowe and beauines, for the death of his friend, hée muste haue some solace and comfort, for to comfort his sorrow & heauinesse. And thereoff it came that the woman that loueth well hir husbande, or the mother, hir childe, oftentymes cannot refrayne to kisse them after that they shalbe dead, or to embrace them, & some time with more greater affection, then euer she dyd during the tyme that he lyued. But wheretoo profiteth all that, eyther to the quick or dead?