A14463:1514
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.
P. Forasmuch as God hath predestinate all his chosen, to make them like to his son Jesus Christ, and inheritors of his heavenly kingdom with him, there is no doubt but that this gift is so joined with the eternal election of God, that it may in no wise be separate, no more than the effect from his cause.
P. Forsomuche as God hathe predestinate all his chosen, to make them lyke to his sonne Iesus Christ, and enheritors of his heauenly kingdome wyth him, ther is no doubt but yt this gift is so ioyned wt the eternal election of God, yt it may in no wise be separate, no more than the effect from his cause.
M. It followeth then that this gift is common to all the elect of God, and proper to every of them, & that on the contrary, all the reprobates are clearly shut from it. It is certain that the reprobates are never made partakers of this gift: For if they were made ⟨p. 220⟩[…] ⟨p. 221⟩