A14463:1611
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.
Mat. Show me something more plainly what thy meaning is.
Mat. Shewe me something more plainely what thy meaning is.
P. Albeit that all virtues are in God in all excellency and full perfection, yet notwithstanding the chief virtue that he will have acknowledged in him, and by the which he will chiefly be glorified, and that also which maketh him to us most amiable, and which is most convenient and necessary for us, and which doth best declare unto us his true nature, it is his goodness.
P. Albeit that all vertues are in God in all excellencie and full perfection, yet notwithstanding the chéefe vertue that he will haue acknowledged in hym, and by the which he will chiefly be glorified, and that also whiche maketh him to vs most amiable, and whiche is most conuenient and necessarie for vs, and whiche doth best declare vnto vs his true nature, it is his goodnesse.
M. Wilt thou also conclude thereby, that he doth more esteem those gifts which make good those who have them, than the gifts which may be in men without making them good, and yielding those better which are partakers ⟨p. 242⟩of them, albeit they mought serve others, to bring them to the communion of these other more excellent gifts.
M. Wilte thou also cō clude thereby, that he doth more estéeme those giftes whiche make good those who haue them, than the giftes which may bée in men withoute making them good, and yelding those better which are partakers ⟨p. 242⟩