A14463:2312
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. If it be requisite to suspend them and to put them from the admission, until such time as they be more capable, it followeth not therefore that they must be excommunicated except it come to pass that they declare themselves openly to be dogs and swine.
P. Yf it be requisite to suspend them and to put them from the admission, vntill such time as they be more capable, it foloweth not therefore that they muste be excommunicated except it come to passe that they declare thēselues openly to be dogges and swine.
M. Thou doest not account then for dogs and ⟨p. 379⟩swine all such as are not yet sufficiently instructed in the Christian doctrine as is meet.
M. Thou doest not accompt then for dogges and ⟨p. 379⟩swine all such as are not yet sufficiently instructed in the Christian doctrine as is meete.
P. If there be but simple ignorance, & good will to learn, I hold them rather for sheep than for dogs and swine, albeit that they may not as yet be received so far forth in the sheepfold as the others which are already sufficiently instructed: yet may they not be utterly shut out, but may be at the least admitted to the communion of the doctrine and prayers. For Jesus Christ hath many sheep scattered here and there which are not as yet all gathered into the fold, but he bringeth them thither in time.
P. Yf there be but simple ignorance, & good will to learne, I holde them rather for shéepe than for dogges and swine, albeit that they may not as yet be receiued so farre forth in the shéepefold as the others which are already sufficiētly instructed: yet may they not be vtterly shutte out, but may be at the least admitted to the communion of the doctrine and prayers. For Iesus Christe hath many sheepe scattered here and there which are not as yet all gathered into the folde, but he bringeth them thither in time.