A14463:2282
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.
How necessary particular instructions are in the Church.
Hovv necessarie particuler instructions are in the Churche.
M. BY this reckoning then, all those that can not yield an account of their faith, must be shut out from the communion of the sacraments, if at the least they be not able to declare by some mean that they understand that which behoveth them to understand, to be found capable of the Sacraments.
M. BY this reckning then, all those that can not yéelde an accompt of their faith, must be shut out from the cōmuniō of the sacramēts, if at the least they be not able to declare by some meane that they vnderstand that which behoueth them to vnderstande, to be founde capable of the Sacraments.
P. It is also the cause why that in the well reformed Churches there is not only Catechisms for the instruction of young children, but also familiar & private instruction for such as be of age, beside the preachings and the other public Catechisms. There are also particular examinations, whereby they cause all such to yield reason of the faith, which have not as yet at all yielded any certain reason of their faith, to the end that they may the better know which they be that ought to be admitted to the communion of the sacraments, & which not, to the end that they be not profaned and polluted neither by the ministers which distribute them, ne yet by them which receive them at their hands, aswell to the condemnation of the one sort as of the other.