A14463:1902
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 hath great propriety.
P. It hathe great proprietie.
M. Which is the first?
M. Whiche is the first?
P. Forsomuch as the nature of it is to wash and to cleanse, it is very proper to represent how we are washed and cleansed in the blood of Jesus Christ, and by the water of life, which is the holy ghost wherewith we are watered and washed by the virtue of the same: and therefore the holy Ghost is often signified in the holy Scriptures by water.
P. Forsomuch as ye nature of it is to wash and to clense, it is verie proper to represente howe we are washed and clensed in the bloud of Iesus Chryste, and by the water of lyfe, which is the holy ghost wherewith wée are watered and washed by the vertue of the same: and therfore the holy Ghost is often signified in the holy Scriptures by water.