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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.
The which law Ansegisus hath put in writing, and it was done in the year of our Lord •yght hundred 1and fifteen. The which nevertheless hath not been yet observed, because of the great estimation that they had of the particular masses. For notwithstanding that Pope Fabian and the Council Agathian and Ehbertin, had decreed that y• lay people which received not the Eucharist? at the least, at Easter, Whitsuntide & Christmas should not be counted for catholics, yet nevertheless the supper is so greatly despised that the lay people must be compelled ⟨p. 190⟩and constrained by commaundings from the Emperor, 2at the Council of Lateran, to communicate at the least once in the year at Easter, for to keep the old custom of the ancient Church, which then was very much corrupted, as one may in like manner judge by the general Council of Pope Innocentius, and by the Canon of 3Clement the third, which was made about a thousand two hundred years after the nativity of Jesus Christ: 4Although that Albert allegeth other reasons, but those have been the causes. Behold how the Christians have been led, and into what pit and depth the Commemoration of the quick and of the dead in the supper, hath drawn them. There remained none but the Greeks, which 5have kept it well, and which have kept nearest and most constantly by y• ancient custom of the Apostles. For yet at this day they do not allow the particular Mass, and they take not y• Eucharist but with company, & that the minister doth distribute it to the people. And this is very clear and plain unto the Churches, which they have a great number of them, under the seigniory of the Venetians. Also they could not suffer that one should deprive them of the Cup or Chalice, the which is one of the parts of the Sacrament, but do keep still that communion, as it was under both kinds, from the time of the Apostles themselves in the Latin Churches, in Africa and Europa, until the time of Frederick the first. Even so have they done in the article of Purgatory,