A14463:1594
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.
For what cause God sometime doth communicate to the wicked of the gifts of the holy Ghost, the which he doth not communicate to the elect.
For vvhat cause God sometime dothe cō municate to the wicked of the giftes of the holie Ghost, the which he doth not cōmunicate to the electe.
M. Seeing that these gifts be so noble & so excellent, it abasheth me that God sometime distributeth them to the unfaithful & reprobate, rather than to the faithful & elect. For albeit that in the time of Balaam, Saul, Cayphe, & Judas, many of the faithful and chosen were endowed with these gifts, yet notwithstanding the greatest number of them had them not at all, but had only those gifts which are proper and common to all the elect and faithful.
M. SEing that these gifts be so noble & so excellēt, it abasheth me that God somtime distributeth them to ye vnfaithful & reprobate, rather than to the faithfull & elect. For albeit that in the time of Balaam, Saule, Cayphe, & Iudas, many of the faithfull and chosen were endowed with these gifts, yet notwithstanding the greatest nūber of thē had thē not at al, but had only those gifts which are proper and cōmon to al the elect and faithful.
P. It is true: but thou must note that God will have it so, chiefly for two causes.