A14463:1632
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.
P. There is one general and common to all as well faithful as unfaithful, the which is sufficient enough to condemn all men before God, but not to save them.
P. There is one generall and common to all as well faithfull as vnfaithfull, the which is sufficient inough to condemne all men before God, but not to saue them.
M. Howe doest thou understand that it is sufficient to condemn, and not to save? For it seemeth to me that it were better not to have such a knowledge than to have it.
M. Howe doest thou vnderstande that it is sufficient to condemne, and not to saue? For it séemeth to me that it were better not to haue suche a knowledge than to haue it.
P. It is the knowledge of God, whereof Saint Paul speaketh in the beginning of the epistle to the Romans, the which condemneth men, insomuch as they have sufficient knowledge of God to know that they ought to honour and glorify him, and yet notwithstanding, ⟨p. 245⟩they neither honour nor glorify him according as he hath declared himself to them, and as they know him:1 wherein they show their malice, perversity, and ingratitude, the which maketh them wholly inexcusable.
P. It is the knowledge of God, whereof Sainct Paule speketh in the beginning of the epistle to the Romaines, the which condemneth men, in somuche as they haue sufficient knowledge of God to know that they oughte to honoure and glorifie him, and yet notwithstanding,