A14463:1711
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.
The thirteenth Dialogue is of the Church, and of the ministry of the same.
The thirtenth Dialogue is of the Churche, and of the ministerie of the same.
MATTHEW. I Do now well understand the difference that thou puttest between the gifts of the holy Ghost, and how much some are more excellent and more necessary, and more to be desired than others: And therefore if thou have no more to say at this present, neither concerning his person, ne yet his gifts, it seemeth to me, that it shall be good that we speak now of the Church, whereof we have not yet spoken.
MATHEVV. I Do now well vnderstande the difference that thou puttest betwene the giftes of the holye Ghost, and how much some are more excellent and more necessarie, and more to be desired than others: And therefore if thou haue no more to saye at this presente, neyther concerning his person, ne yet his gyftes, it séemeth to me, that it shall be good that we speake nowe of the Churche, whereof wée haue not yet spoken.
Peter. It is one of the chief points, which we have yet to handle. ⟨p. 263⟩For the Church is the same wherein God doth open all the treasures of his graces and gifts, whereof we have even now spoken, and for whose sake he giveth them, to whom he giveth them.