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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. They would give much upon that condition, and not without cause. For they did know very well that it would be available unto them one time in the year.
Hillarius. They would giue much vpon that condition, and not without cause. For they dyd know very well that it woulde bee auaylable vnto them one time in the yeare.
Theophilus. It is very true. But their principal & chiefest profit cometh unto them, because of the dead. And therefore they would no longer permit & suffer, y• it should be lawful & common unto all, as well lay people as clerks, to exercise the office, & to communicate y• one for the other, but it is given unto them alone, as y• most worthiest, judging the other thereof unworthy. From thence are descended ⟨image 192⟩the private and particular masses, in which all they 1alone do say that do communicate for the quick and the dead. It sufficed them not, to take the office to communicate for the dead, which were absent, but which is more, would also make it in the name of y• living, which are present, as though they rejected them, and judged them excommunicate and unworthy to communicate at the death & passion of Jesus Christ. I demand of thee then Eusebius upon this, where thou hast ever read, that the Christians have used a supper and sacrament vicar, I 2do call the sacrament end the supper vicar, which thou takest for an other alter the imitation of Tertullian, calling vicar baptism, the same of the Corinthians for the dead. 3Canst thou allege unto me one only example taken from the true servants of God. And that fashion to celebrate the supper particularly, is it not a right excommunication,