A14463:1818
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. A certain assurance founded in the promises of god by the which man holdeth himself assured of God in Jesus Christ and by Jesus Christ.
P. A certaine assurance founded in the promises of god by the which man holdeth himselfe assured of God in Iesus Chryste and by Iesus Chryst.
M. Why sayest thou that the faith which hath not this assurance, leadeth the man which regardeth but only the law, rather to despair than to hope of salvation?
M. Why sayst thou that the faith which hath not this assurance, leadeth the man which regardeth but onely the lawe, rather to despaire than to hope of saluation?
P. For because that so much the more man is assured, that God is author of his law, and that that which it ⟨p. 283⟩containeth, is true, even so much the more is he afraid of the judgement of God, and can not find rest in his conscience, because there is nothing without Jesus Christ, wherein to be assured against the wrath of God.
P. For bicause that so much the more man is assured, that God is author of his lawe, and that that whiche it ⟨p. 283⟩conteyneth, is true, euen so muche the more is he afrayd of the iudgemente of God, and can not fynde rest in his conscience, bicause there is nothing without Iesus Christe, wherein to be assured against the wrath of God.