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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.
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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 2manner, as touching the general supper which is made among all the people, how do the Priests handle ⟨image 194⟩yours? It was not enough for them to have usurped the Sacrament for them alone, a great time, but that they must yet defraud you of the moiety, the same days that 3you would communicate. For they do not give you to drink of that same wine the which they do drink, but have established and concluded, by their councils that it sufficeth the lay people to communicate under one kind only, that is to say, of the bread: and that there should be none but they, which should communicate under both kinds of the bread and wine. And the same 4was determined in the council of Constance, holden in the year 1415. the xb, day of June, in the 13. Sessions against the authority not only of the word of God, but of all the ancient Doctors, and also of their decrees and Canons. Wherefore it is easily to judge of what spirit those were lead that were there assisting, and which have made such determination, & have judged John Hus and Hierome of Prague to be burned, who upheld the doctrine of the ancient Church. At the least they could not deny but that they were constrained to condemn either that council, or the same of Basel, which afterwards ordained that it was permitted to the Bohemians to communicate under doth kinds: