A14463:1706
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. And yet men do much more esteem those same gifts, and power, knowledge, wisdom, eloquence and such like gifts, than they do goodness, justice, holiness, innocency, & such other virtues which follow and accompany them. For if a man be but an honest and virtuous man, not having those other gifts which are of more great show before men, and which men have in greater admiration, he shall not be esteemed, but shall be contemned as a poor vile and abject man. On the contrary if a man have these other gifts, although he be otherwise vicious and wicked, yet shall he be evermore esteemed and advanced among men.
M. And yet mē do muche more estéeme those same gifts, and power, knowledge, wisedome, eloquence and such like gifts, than they do goodnesse, iustice, holynesse, innocencie, & such other vertues which followe and accompanie them. For if a man be but an honest and vertuous man, not hauing those other gifts which are of more great shewe before men, and whiche men haue in greater admiration, he shall not bée estéemed, but shall bée contemned as a poore vile and abiecte man. On the contrarye if a man haue these other giftes, althoughe he bée otherwyse vyciouse and wicked, yet shall hée bée euermore estéemed and aduaunced among men.
Peter. I confess that which thou sayest. And so by the same very mean the Devil might be preferred unto the honestest man of the world. For as ⟨p. 260⟩I have already said, he is more excellent than any man in all those things whereof the most brave and most excellent of the world may glory and vaunt them.
Peter. I confesse that whiche thou sayest. And so by the same verye meane the Deuyll myghte bée preferred vnto the honestest manne of the worlde. For as ⟨p. 260⟩I haue alredy sayd, he is more excellente than any man in all those thinges wherof the most braue and most excellente of the world may glory and vaunte them.