A14463:1526
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. What sayest thou then of charity?
M. What sayest thou then of charitie?
P. I say that it is a gift which dependeth of the gift of faith, as the effect of his cause, and as the fruit of the free which bringeth it forth.
P. I say that it is a gifte which dependeth of the gifte of faith, as the effect of his cause, and as the frute of the frée which bringeth it foorthe.
M. But for so much as charity cannot be separated from faith, if faith be true faith, it followeth then, that if we cannot be justified without faith, no more may we then also without charity neither consequently be saved without the one and the other, seeing that our salvation proceedeth of our justification.
M. But for somuche as charitie cannot be separated from faith, if faythe be true faith, it followeth then, that if we cannot be iustified without faith, no more may we then also without charitie neyther consequently be saued withoute the one and the other, séeing that our saluation procéedeth of our iustification.