A14463:1567
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. I do even so understand it.
M. I do euen so vnderstand it.
P. And therefore Jesus Christ hath said, that what is borne of flesh is flesh, and what is borne of the spirit is spirit. For even as a dead body can bring forth but infection and corruption, even so on the contrary, a living body doth the works of life, because of the living soul that he hath more than hath the dead body.
P. And therfore Iesus Chryst hath sayd, that what is borne of fleshe is fleshe, and what is borne of the spirite is spirit. For euen as a dead bodie can bring forth but infection and corruption, euen so on the contrary, a liuing body doth the works of lyfe, bicause of the liuing soule that he hath more than hath the dead bodie.
M. It followeth then, that the faith whereby man is vivified and regenerate, is unto him as the soul, which bringeth to him spiritual life, and that the unfaithful, and not regenerate man, is as a body without a soul.1
M. It foloweth then, that the faith wherby man is viuified and regenerate, is vnto him as the soule, which bringeth to him spiritual life, and that the vnfaithful, and not regenerate man, is as a body without a soule.1