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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 give it you but for to rinse & wash the teeth: if peradventure there do stick any of the flesh which they have given you to eat. For according to the witness which Humbert Cardinal, a Rorguignon hath rehearsed in the honourable recantation that he made 1for Berengarius, containing the faith of Pope Nicholas, the which they have caused him to rehearse and recite, we must believe, that the body of Jesus Christ, is there taken with the mouth of the faithful, and chewed & bruised with the teeth. It is most certain, that their wine is no more blood, then yours. But ere seeing the opinion that they have, and that they do esteem it more precious, they do you injury, to deprive you of it.
Hillarius. They giue it you but for to rinse & wash the téeth: if peraduēture there do stick any of the flesh which they haue giuen you to eate. For according to the witnesse which Humbert Cardinall, a Rorguignon hath rehearsed in the honorable recantatiō that he made 1for Berengarius, conteyning the fayth of Pope Nicholas, the which they haue caused him to rehearse and recite, wée must beleeue, that the body of Iesus Christ, is there taken with the mouth of the faythfull, and chewed & brused with the téeth. It is moste certeine, that their wine is no more bloud, then yours. But yer seeing the opinion that they haue, and that they doe estéeme it more precious, they doe you iniurye, to depriue you of it.
- 1The honourable recantation of Berengarius De con. dist. 2 Lgo Berengarius.
Theophilus. I do marvel? how they dare deprive the people from the cup, more then from the bread, sith that Jesus Christ hath said expressly, take ye, and drink ye all. But there is no doubt, y• the private & particular 1