A14463:1216
A Christian instruction, containing the law and the Gospel Also a summary of the…A Christian instruction, conteyning the law and the Gospell Also a summarie of the…
A Christian instruction, containing the law and the Gospel Also a summary of the principal points of the Christian faith and religion, and of the abuses and errors contrary to the same. Done in certain dialogues in french, by M. Peter Viret, sometime minister of the Word of God at Nymes in Province. Translated by I.S. Seen and allowed according to the Queens Majesties injunctions.A Christian instruction, conteyning the law and the Gospell Also a summarie of the principall poyntes of the Christian fayth and religion, and of the abuses and errors contrary to the same. Done in certayne dialogues in french, by M. Peter Viret, sometime minister of the Word of God at Nymes in Prouince. Translated by I.S. Seene and allowed according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by Henry Bynneman? for Abraham Veale, 1573
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.
M. Albeit that the brute beasts have ben created of the same very matter, whereof man and woman are created as concerning the body: yet for all that, I know well that there ⟨p. 176⟩is great difference touching the kinds, and that man and woman have a far other union and communion of flesh and nature together, than with other living creatures which we do call beasts.
M. Albeit that the brute beasts haue ben created of the same very matter, whereof man and woman ar created as concerning the bodie: yet for al that, I know wel that there ⟨p. 176⟩is greate difference touching the kindes, and that man and woman haue a farre other vnion and communion of fleshe and nature together, thā wc other liuing creatures whiche we do call beastes.
P. And therefore after that god had created Adam, and that his pleasure was to give him an aid in marriage,1 he would create this aid, which is the woman, of the very flesh and substance of Adam himself, to the end that they should be one very flesh and one very body: as in deed Adam did right well know when he saw the woman immediately after that she was so created. Wherefore he said: This here is flesh of my flesh, and bone of my bones: and therefore man shall leave father and mother, and shall stick to his wife: If there be great difference between the nature of the man and of the woman, and that of other living creatures concerning the very body, the difference is yet much more great concerning the soul, forasmuch as the other living creatures were not created to the image and likeliness of God,2 as man was, wherefore they have not a soul of a heavenly and divine nature ⟨p. 177⟩