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

that he assigned unto the souls of all the Disciples of Jesus Christ, and the true faithful, an invisible place, which is appointed and determined ⟨image 202⟩for them of God, in which they shall continue and abide until the resurrection, the which they do look for: Yet nevertheless he assigned but one place for all the Christians, the which he called Disciples of Jesus Christ: And be saith not, that some shall be in pain and other some at rest, but he putteth them there upon a condition, and he assigneth unto all no other pain, but the tarrying and looking for the resurrection: saying, that the Disciple is not above the Master, and that as Jesus Christ is not by and by risen after his death, but tarried the time that was appointed him of God his Father, so must his Disciples tarry for theirs, as he hath ordained them. It is very true, that in the book which ¹is attributed unto Saint Clement, it seemeth that he would put a certain kind of Purgatory, but although the book were of great authority, yet nevertheless it would serve for nothing for the Priests Purgatory. For although that he putteth a certain difference between the most perfectest servants of God, and the others which have not nor could not entirely accomplish the rule of righteousness, but have yet some malice remaining in their flesh, yet he assigned no pain unto those: Although that he thinketh that the others are in more greater glory, but saith, that their souls are kept in goodly pleasant and joyful regions and countries, that in the resurrection of the dead, when they shall have received their bodies, and that their resolution shall be purged, they may come unto eternal life. Behold his own words, the which he recited, as spoken of Saint Peter; unto Saint Clement. But there is no appearance, that Saint Peter hath holden those words which were attributed to him in that book, nor that Saint Clement hath ²written them, although that the book is entitled in his name. For how many propositions be there altogether contrary unto the doctrine of Saint Peter and of all the Apostles? But put the case, that the ⟨p. 196⟩book were very ancient, and of the Author to whom they attribute it, if it be not canonised, nor of the Apostolical authority: and which is more, he putteth no Purgatory, in which there is pain and torment: