A14463:1247
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. For what cause?
P. For because that if he had suffered but in our body & in our flesh, he should not then have satisfied but in our flesh and in our body, and for them only, and not for the soul: And so should it have come to pass, the body should be saved, and not the soul, from the which, sin chiefly doth proceed. For the body should not sin at all, if sin were not first in the soul.
P. For bicause that if he had suffred but in our bodie & in our flesh, he should not then haue satisfied but in our flesh and in our body, and for them only, and not for the soule: And so shoulde it haue come to passe, the bodie should bée saued, and not the soule, from the whiche, sinne cheefely doth procéede. For the bodie shoulde not sinne at all, if sinne were not firste in the soule.
M. Why sayest thou so?
M. Why sayst thou so?
P. Forsomuch as the body is but as it were the instrument of the soul, by the which she worketh, and doth her works: wherefore if there be fault in the work, the fault may not be attributed to the instrument, but rather to the worker which worketh,