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The first part of the Christian instruction, and general so[m]me of the doctrine, contained…The firste parte of the Christian instruction, and generall so[m]me of the doctrine, conteyned…
The first part of the Christian instruction, and general so[m]me of the doctrine, contained in the holy Scriptures wherein the principal points of the religion are familiarly handled by dialogues, very necessary to be read of all Christians. Translated into English, by John Shute, according to the late copy set forth, by th'author Master Peter Viret. 1565. Overseen and perused, according to the order appointed, by the Queens majesties injunctions.The firste parte of the Christian instruction, and generall so[m]me of the doctrine, conteyned in the holy Scriptures wherein the principall pointes of the religion are familiarly handled by dialogues, very necessary to be read of all Christians. Translated into Englishe, by Iohn Shute, accordyng to the late copy set forth, by th'author Maister Peter Viret. 1565. Ouersene and perused, accordyng to the order appointed, by the Queenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1565London: printed by Iohn Day, 1565
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¶ Of such Christians as be Neuters and indifferent, which follow the doctrine of the Interim: and of the mixture of the true & false doctrine, & how much it displeaseth god.
¶ Of such Christians as be Nevvters and indifferent, vvhiche folovv the doctrine of the Interim: and of the mixture of the true & false doctrine, & hovv much it displeaseth god.
D. For so much as it is so, we have no just occasion to dwell at all upon these Interimists, ne yet upon their Interim, which is a name whereunto men may join whatsoever they will. It is a beast that hath a very strong and a ⟨p. 87⟩mighty back, which will bear what soever men will lay on him. It is a name made of an adverb, which doth very well agree with the Grammar, of those Grammarians, which have forged it. For even as their Grammar. (I mean their divinity) is strange and different from all other doctrines, and especially from the true divinity of the sacred Scriptures, even so his language is very new, and strange, and hath his rules utterly different. The Greek and Latin Grammar, have the Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter Gender, the Hebrew hath but the two first, and wanteth the Neuter. And contrarily the Interim, hath neither Masculine nor Feminine, for he is neither Male nor Female: but is Neuter, or at the least compounded of Male and Female: and so must needs by common, and must needs be Male and Female, both together, or else he can be neither the one, ne yet the other. T. Then shall he be a Monster. D. Yea in deed very monstrous, and so contrary to the word of God, as nothing more: for his Grammar is like to the Hebrew Grammar. It alloweth no Neuter 1Gender, and hardly doth it any common. It doth not permit to couple the Ox, and the Ass together in the plough, no more doth it permit to sow a field, with sundry kinds of grain, ne yet to make a cloth, of sundry stuffs and substances. It condemneth also the confusion of seed, of nature in beasts, and other living creatures, & holdeth those beasts for unclean, that are engendered by beasts of sundry kinds, as are Mullets, and Mules, and such other like, In the which it is plain, that the Lord hath had a further regard then to those things, when he gave such laws: & that he would admonish his people by those same, to observe good order in all things, & to eschew & avoid all confusion and disorder. Then if the mixture and confusion of sundry things do displease him, it must needs then displease him more, when that the greater part is the worst, as it is in the Interim. For there is very little pure