A14463:1811
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. It is very certain, that if a man have not true faith in the word of God, for the first he shall make none account of the law, ne yet of all the threatenings of his judgement contained in the same, but shall mock at it only as do the Atheists, and all men which are without God, without law, and without faith, do scoff at all the holy Scriptures.
P. It is very certain, that if a man haue not true faith in the word of God, for the first he shall make none accompt of the lawe, ne yet of all the threatnings of his iudgement conteyned in the same, but shall mocke at it onely as doe the Atheists, and all men whiche are withoute God, without lawe, and without faithe, doe scoffe at all the holye Scriptures.
M. If they have no faith in the word of God concerning his law, there is no appearance that they have any more concerning the Gospel, and the grace and mercy of God promised in the same.
M. If they haue no faith in the word of God concerning his lawe, there is no apparance that they haue any more cōcerning the Gospell, and the grace and mercie of God promised in the same.
P. That notwithstanding, this faith in the Gospel is the principal point that is required in true repentance. For albeit that a man ⟨p. 282⟩have faith, in all that which the law declareth, so it is that this faith can not let him to despair as Judas did, if he pass not further to the Gospel, but such a faith shall cause him to despair the more.
P. That notwithstanding, this fayth in the Gospel is the principall pointe that is required in true repentance. For albeit that a man