A14463:1460
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. Thou wilt not say yet that the father is before the son and before the holy Ghost in such a manner?
M. Thou wilte not say yet that the father is before the sonne and before the holy Ghoste in such a manner?
P. No. For the Father cannot be without the son, and the holy Ghost, as the son and the holy Ghost cannot be without the father.
P. No. For the Father cannot be without the sonne, and the holy Ghost, as the sonne and the holy Ghost cannot be without the father.
M. Show me then in what other sort the father is before the son, and the father and the son before the holy Ghost.
M. Shewe me then in what other sorte the father is before the sonne, and the father and the sonne before the holy Ghoste.
P. Thou must fourthly note, concerning things that be equal of time, of dignity, and of nature, that forasmuch as a man cannot consider and comprehend them all at one time or instant, we do consider them the one after the other, and we place the one before the other, even as we comprehend and dispose them in our understanding. And even so, that which we first consider and comprehend, or that which first is showed unto us, is first in order in respect of us, albeit that it be equal to the others, of time, of dignity,