A14463:1605
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.
Of the gifts of God which are most excellent and most to be desired.
Of the giftes of God which are moste excellent and most to be desired.
M. For so much as I can understand by thee, thou esteemest the first gifts whereof thou spakest, to be much more excellent and necessary to every one in his particular, than the others ⟨p. 241⟩whereof thou spakest in the second place.
M. FOr so muche as I can vnderstande by thée, thou estéemest the first giftes whereof thou spakest, to bée muche more excellente and necessarye to euery one in his particular, than the others ⟨p. 241⟩wherof thou spakest in the seconde place.
P. Thou mayest well think, that the gifts which God hath chiefly prepared for his elect, are the most principal, and those whom he most esteemeth, and of the which also he willeth that we have most care, & namely for two causes.
P. Thou mayest well thinke, that the gifts which God hath chiefly prepared for his elect, are the most principall, and those whome he most estéemeth, and of the which also he willeth that we haue most care, & namely for two causes.