A14463:1933
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 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.
P. It is euen so: and for somuche as man can not lyue by meate only or drinke only, except he haue them bothe togither, no more is Iesus Chryst contented to ordeyne only the breade, or only the wine, for signes of the spirituall nouriture, whiche wée haue in his Supper, but would ordeine those two, to giue vs to vnderstande, that euen as he which hathe meate and drinke, hath his whole nouriture, euen so the faithefull haue in Iesus Chryst fully all that whiche is necessarie for the spiritual lyfe.
M. Is there yet none other reason why Jesus Christ did ordain those two signs?
M. Is there yet none other reason why Iesus Chryst did ordeyn those two signes?
M. Yes, for Jesus Christ hath also by these two signs better expressed, how that he hath given his body and his life to the death ⟨p. 305⟩for us, than if he had ordained but one only, in so much as he hath given one particular sign to signify his body and an other to signify his blood.
M. Yes, for Iesus Christe hathe also by these two signes better expressed, howe that he hath giuen his bodie and his lyfe to the deathe