A14463:1833
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.
Of the communion of saints, & how the church entereth into the same by mean of the ministry of the Gospel.
Of the cōmunion of saincts, & hovve the church entreth into the same by meane of the ministerie of the Gospell.
M. I Do well remember that when we speak of that communion, thou hast set me and put me again upon this point, to declare unto me the rest, the which thou hast not yet expounded unto me.
M. I Do well remember that when wée speake of that communion, thou hast sette me and put me againe vppon thys pointe, to declare vnto me the reste, the whiche thou hast not yet expounded vnto me.
P. According to that which we have already said, the Church doth not only obtain this remission of sins, whereof we now speak, but also the victory against sin, death, hell, and the Devil, and likewise eternal life, the which Jesus Christ hath won for it, because that she is the spouse of him, and that she entereth into communion of all his goods with him, by mean of this spiritual marriage, by the which she is conjoined to him as a chaste virgin by the virtue of faith in him.
P. According to that whiche we haue already sayd, the Churche doth not only obtaine this remission of sinnes, whereof we nowe speake, but also the victorye against sinne, death, hell, and the Deuill, and likewise eternall life, the whiche Iesus Christ hath wonne for it, bycause that she is the spouse of him, and that she entreth into communion of all his goodes with him, by meane of this spirituall mariage, by the whiche she is conioyned to him as a chast virgin by ye vertue of faith in him.