A14463:2340
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. Which is that point?
M. Whether we ought to receive to the Communion of the Sacraments, none but such as are already so instructed in the Christian doctrine, that they have sufficient understanding of the things signified by the Sacraments, & are able to yield good reason of their faith: it seemeth to me that a man may gather of thy words ⟨p. 385⟩that not only they ought not to receive little children to the Supper, but also they ought not to baptise them, until the time they come to the age in the which they may yield reason of their faith, and understand what their baptism doth signify.
M. Whether we ought to receiue to the Communion of the Sacramentes, none but such as are already so instructed in the Christian doctrine, that they haue sufficiente vnderstandyng of the things signified by the Sacramēts, & are able to yelde good reason of their faith: it séemeth to me yt a man may gather of thy woords ⟨p. 385⟩that not only they oughte not to receyue litle children to the Supper, but also they ought not to baptise them, vntill the time they come to the age in the whiche they may yelde reason of their faith, and vnderstand what their baptisme doth signifie.
P. Thou hast here to note, that there is difference between receiving of children to baptism, and receiving of them to the Supper.
P. Thou hast here to note, that there is difference betwene receyuing of children to baptisme, and receyuing of them to the Supper.