A14463:1931
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. For the first, thou must note and remember that which I have already touched, that the supper hath this proper unto it, that even as baptism is to us a testimony of our spiritual birth & life, which we obtain by Jesus Christ, even so is the supper a sacrament and testimony, how that God will continue in us that benefit whereof ⟨p. 304⟩baptism is to us a Sacrament, and will nourish and entertain us in the same spiritual life, the which he signifieth unto us therein, unto the time that we have the full enjoying in heaven with Jesus Christ.
P. For the first, thou must note and remember that whiche I haue alreadie touched, that the supper hathe this proper vnto it, yt euen as baptisme is to vs a testimonie of our spiritual birth & life, which we obtayn by Iesus Christe, euen so is the supper a sacrament and testimonie, howe that God wil continue in vs that benefite whereof ⟨p. 304⟩baptisme is to vs a Sacrament, and will nourishe and entertayne vs in the same spirituall lyfe, the which he signifieth vnto vs therin, vnto the tyme that we haue the full enioying in heauen with Iesus Chryst.
M. I think than that to be the cause why Jesus Christ would signify those things to us by the eating and drinking, and by those things which are proper to nurture.
M. I thinke than that to be the cause why Iesus Chryste would signifie those things to vs by the eating and drinking, and by those things which are propre to nouriture.
P. It is even so: and for so much as man can not live by meat only or drink only, except he have them both together, no more is Jesus Christ contented to ordain only the bread, or only the wine, for signs of the spiritual nurture, which we have in his Supper, but would ordain those two, to give us to understand, that even as he which hath meat and drink, hath his whole nurture, even so the faithful have in Jesus Christ fully all that which is necessary for the spiritual life.