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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. Thou mayst say, that there was never a more subtler question alleged in Sorbonne: he exhorted his parishioners to offer and pay well their tithes. And the better to stir them forward to do the same, he proponed unto them, the example of Abel and Cain, saying: 1Take ye heed you do not as that cursed Cain did, who would not pay his tithes, nor go to Mass: but fellow the good example of Abel, who paid his tithes willingly, and always of the best and fairest, and he never sailed to hear Mass every day. If it be so, the Mass is more ancient then thou sayest that it is.
Hillarius. Thou mayst say, that there was neuer a more subtiller question alledged in Sorbonne: he exhorted his parishioners to offer and paye well their tithes. And the better to stirie them forward to doe the same, hee proponed vnto them, the example of Abell and Caine, saying: 1Take yee heede you doe not as that cursed Caine did, who would not pay his tithes, nor go to Masse: but fellow the good example of Abell, who payd his tythes willingly, and alwayes of the best and fayrest, and hee neuer sayled to heare Masse euery day. If it bee so, the Masse is more auncient then thou sayest that it is.
- 1A bell hearing Mass.A bell hearing Masse.
Theophilus. Peradventure it is with the priests as it was with the Egyptians, 1who did glory so much of their antiquity: and did affirm, that it was ten thousand years, that they had been in the world. And when they said it, it was not two thousand years, that the world was created.
Theophilus. Peraduenture it is with the priests as it was with the Aegiptians,