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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.
Theophilus. If you would not in corporal things, wherefore will you accept it in spiritual things & can I 1live of your soul, or you o• mine?
Theophilus. If you would not in coryorall thinges, wherefore will you accept it in spirituall thinges & can I 1liue of your soule, or you o• mine?
- 1The vicar of saith.The vicare of sayth.
Thomas. No.
Theophilus. Now forasmuch as the faith is the life of the soul, it must be that every one do live of his own, and we must not say I believe: as my maybe believeth. But it must be that I my self do believe, and that I 1do know and understand that which I believe. Furthermore, sith that the word of God, the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments are means by which God nourisheth, keepeth, augement•th, and confirmeth the faith in us, as the life, the body, by the means of bread, and other meats, we ought to understand, that as there is no man that can take food and nourishment for me, if I my self do not take it, so cannot he hear the Gospel, nor receive the Sacraments, for me: But it is necessary that I do them my self in proper person. If I will have the profit, yea, though I were an Emperor. Now if tho living cannot do it for the living, what can they do for the dead? In like