A14463:2415
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.
Pet. Albeit that God doth bind us by the charity which we owe the one to the others, to pray in this life the one for the others, it followeth not for all that, that we must ⟨p. 400⟩take for our mediators and advocates in the stead of Jesus Christ, or towards him, those same whose prayers we do require, and that do pray for us, as the superstitious and Idolaters, do take for their mediators and advocates the dead saints.
Pet. Albeit that God doth binde vs by the charitie which we owe the one to the others, to pray in this life the one for the others, it followeth not for all that, that we must ⟨p. 400⟩take for our mediators and aduocates in the stéede of Iesus Christe, or towardes him, those same whose prayers we do require, and that do pray for vs, as the superstitiouse and Idolaters, do take for their mediators and aduocates the deade saincts.
M. What difference is there then touching this point?
P. If there were non other difference, but that we have the expressed word of God for the one, and not for the other, it were sufficient: but there is yet this more, that when the superstitious and Idolatrous sort do take for their advocates the dead saints, they put them in the place of Jesus Christ, as though he alone were not sufficient, or else at the least they take them as mistrusting that they should not be hard, neither towards the father nor yet towards Jesus Christ, if they have none other mediators & advocates by whom they may have better access, as well to the father as to Jesus christ.