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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.
Hillariu. If Saint Auguslin, had always followed, that which he teached here, his doctrine would have been more pure, and would have spoken yet more soberly then he hath done of the suffrages for the dead: sith that he had no sure nor certain witness in the word of God.
Hillariu. If Sainct Auguslin, had alwayes followed, that whiche he teached here, his doctrine would haue bene more pure, and would haue spoken yet more soberly then he hath done of the suffrages for the dead: sith that he had no sure nor certeine witnes in the worde of God.
Theophilus. Jesus Christ hath not fore spoken without 1cause, that if it were possible, the very elect should boo seduced and deceived by the false Prophets & false Christs. Wherefore we ought not to marvel although Saint August•n, and such as he was, have sometime been overcome. ⟨image 204⟩But for us we ought rather to be more confirmed in the doctrine of the Gospel, seeing it fulfilled before ou• eyes, & we ought well to learn by the example of others, to walk in the fear of God, without straying or wandering any thing after our opinions and fantasies. For if already from the time of the Apostles, Antichrist did begin his reign and work his secret of iniquity, we must […] doubt, but that he was much advanced in the time of Saint Augustin. And the Apostle calleth not without cause, his work and business the mystery of iniquity. For 2he hath proceeded and gone forward so secretly, craftily and subtly, that the most holyest and best learned, have been overcome. use hath of a long time hatched his Cockatrice, and Basilisk's eggs, before he could be perceived, and hath practised his matters so subtly under the earth, that scant one could know, to what end he tendeth, until such time as he hath ended and finished his work, and that Jesus Christ, by his Gospel, hath opened and revealed it to his elect: as we do see by experience, at this