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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. If we will understand that which saint Paul hath written of the Corinthians, which 1baptised themselves for the dead, after the sense in which the ancients have taken it, we should have no less reason to excuse them, then those here. For if I may take the supper for an other man, wherefore may I not in like manner be baptised for him? I think that they will not grant we that, that one may be baptised for an other, and that 2that baptism doth profit him, and yet less to the dead then to the living.
Hillarius. If we will vnderstand that which saint Paul hath wrytten of the Corinthians, which 1baptised themselues for the dead, after the sence in which the auncients haue taken it, we should haue no lesse reason to excuse them, then those here. For if I may take the supper for an other man, wherefore may I not in lyke manner be baptised for him? I thinke that they will not graunte we that, that one may be baptised for an other, and that 2that baptisme doth profite him, and yet lesse to the dead then to the lyuing.
- 1To take the supper for y• dead. 1. Cor. 15. d. 29
- 2Baptism for the dead.Baptisme for the dead.
Theophilus. It is well found out, who have been of that opinion, that they may be baptised for the dead, which without baptism were departed out of