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

Eusebius. But although they have resisted it of long time, were they not in the end constrained to allow and acknowledge it, and to abjure their error and heresy, at the council of Florence, consenting with the Romish ¹Church?

Eusebius. But although they haue resisted it of long time, were they not in the ende constrayned to allow and acknowledge it, and to ab•ure their error and heresie, at the councell of Florence, consenting with the Romish ¹Churche?

1. 1The Counsell of Florence.

Theophilus. Thou hast said very well, constrained. For that Romish tyrant never ceaseth until he hath seduced and brought subject unto him all other ⟨image 197⟩Churches, either through craft and subtlety, or else by force & violence. Yet nevertheless, before that the Greeks consented unto him, how long time have they resisted? And afterwards, what are those that have consented and after what sort? whether that the Purgatory such as they have preached unto us until this present time, was founded and binlved upon the holy scriptures, and worthy to be holden and taken for an article of the faith, as they have constrained us, it followeth that all the Greeks and all their Churches should have been heretics until the year of our Lord a thousand four hundred thirty and nine, that the Council was holden. But how and by whom was it celebrated? were there not then Schisms & Antipopes in the Church? For some of them did draw & gather ¹themselves towards Almaigne and assembled themselves at Basel at the Council begun by Pope Martin, the predecessor to Eugenius, at which was the Emperor Sigismond with the Princes of Spain, Almaigne, Pannonia and France. Others assembled and gathered themselves together and went to the Council of Ferrara, which afterwards was transported to Florence, because of the plague