A14463:1478
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.
Pe. Thou hast to note first, that because the Father doth communicate to us by the virtue of the holy Ghost, the graces the which he doth offer and present unto us in his Son Jesus Christ, these graces are called by the name of the holy Ghost. And therefore in the Scripture it is spoken of the holy Ghost, as though there were sundry of them.
Pe. Thou hast to note firste, that bycause the Father doth communicate to vs by the vertue of the holie Ghoste, the graces the whiche he doth offer and present vnto vs in his Sonne Iesus Chryst, these graces are called by the name of the holy Ghost. And therfore in the Scripture it is spoken of the holie Ghost, as thoughe there were sundry of them.
M. Give me an example of that which thou sayest.
M. Giue mée an example of that which thou sayest.
Peter. Isaiah,1 speaking of the graces which should be in Jesus Christ, and of the excellent gifts of god, wherewith he should be endued in his humane nature, hath said: The spirit of the Lord shall repose upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and of force, the spirit of knowledge and of fear of the Lord: There is also mention made in other places of the holy Scriptures,2 and chiefly in the Epistles of Saint Paul, of the Spirit of adoption and of faith, and of […] ⟨p. 218⟩prophecy, & of other such like gifts, which we must understand not of the essence of the holy Ghost,