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

Theophilus. Although that those words are not recited in the scripture, after that manner as thou dost receipt them, yet nevertheless. I am content to allow it to be true. I do not deny, but that God is as just as he is merciful. ¹For otherwise he could not be God. But we ought to consider, by what means he doth exercise his justice & mercy towards us. There is no doubt, but ye our sins do deserve ²great punishment. And therefore hath he given unto us Jesus Christ his son, & hath delivered him to death for us, that our misdeeds should be punished in him, & that he do satisfy for us to his sovereign justice, for to obtain of him grace & mercy in his name. Thou seest then that there is none ³evil which is not unpunished, for to satisfy the righteousness & justice of god: but there is difference in the manner of punishing ⟨image 229⟩For•• he that hath b•ne the evil believeth in Jesus Christ, and hath full hope and trust that through his death & passion he hath obtained of God pardon and remission of his sins, through that saith, he is the true member of Jesus ⁴Christ, and adopted for the son of God. If he be a true member of Jesus Christ, and a true child of God, he & his sins are punished in Jesus Christ, who for that cense, hath borne the judgement and tursse of God, for all the elect. But if the sinner be an Infidel, and which hath no part with Jesus Christ, the wrath of God falleth ⁵upon him and he cannot escape the Judgement of God, but that his sin be punished in himself, in hell fire. And even as our evil deeds are punished in Jesus Christ, so are our good deeds rewarded in him, and by him allowed ⁶of the celestial Father, which crowneth his good works in us. For nothing pleaseth him but Jesus Christ his well beloved son, in whom he delighteth, and no works