A14463:2194
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 discipline of the church, and of the principal parts of the same.
Of the discipline of the church, and of the principall partes of the same.
P. I Had determined to have spoken somewhat more fully, for so much as Jesus Christ hath given a certain form & rule. But because we have yet to speak of the discipline of the Church, & that it is so joined with the ministry of the same, that it cannot be well ruled nor conserved without that discipline, we will first speak so far as the matter that we handle now requireth it, and then afterward we will conclude the whole by the invocation of the name of God, and by prayer.
P. I Had determined to haue spokē somwhat more fully, for so much as Iesus Christ hath giuen a certaine forme & rule. But bicause wée haue yet to speake of the discipline of the Church, & that it is so ioyned with the ministery of the same, that it cānot bée wel ruled nor conserued without yt discipline, wée wil first speake so farre as the matter that wée handle nowe requireth it, and then afterwarde we will conclude the whole by the inuocation of the name of God, and by praier.