A14463:2497
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 name Eternal which is Jehovah in Hebrew, given to God.
Of the name Eternal vvhich is Jehoua in Hebrevve, giuen to God.
T. Wherefore doth he first call him self the Eternal?
T. WHerefore dothe he first call him selfe the Eternal?
D. He doth declare in the Hebrew tongue, in the which Moses hath written these things,1 by the word of Jehovah the which we do so translate, what is his being & his nature, & that he is the Creator of all creatures,2 the first & the last, without beginning and without end, and hath his being of none other but of him self: & of him all things have their being,3 & are come from him, and do return into him. It is he by whom we live, move, & are. Then may he lawfully say, I am, the which none else may justly say. Wherefore, seeing that he ⟨p. 423⟩is our Creator,4 & so by consequent our guide & governor, & that we have of him our soul, body, and goods: is it not meet that we do acknowledge him to be our King, Prince & Lord, & render to him the homage of soul, of body & goods, & of all things else that we have received of him, to yield unto him perfect obedience? For this cause the holy Scripture putteth us in mind oftentimes of these things, & giveth to God the title of maker of heaven and earth. Wherefore it must needs be gram ted that none other be our God but only he unto whom this name and title belongeth, which is that Eternal essence that can do all things, and is the beginning, the conservation, & the end of all things.