A14463:2509
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 that this remembrance of the going forth out of Egypt, is a mark to separate the true God from the false Goddes.
Hovv that this remembraunce of the going foorth out of Egypte, is a marke to separate the true God from the false Goddes.
D. ON the other side, this remembrance of the going forth of the people out of the land of Egypt, doth comprehend not only the benefits which this nation did at that time receive at the hand of God, when they were brought out of Egypt by his power and virtue: but also all the other works and wonders which he did among them, and by the which he did declare and show him self not only to be the true God, but also to be the guide and governor of this people. And therefore, for so much as he can not be seen nor understood by any bodily sense, it pleased him to give these visible witnesses and testimonies of him self, whereby he may be certainly seen in spirit and faith, and discerned from false Gods: and chiefly in Jesus Christ our Lord, in whom he hath yet more familiarly and plainly showed him self. Wherefore we are assured, that when we direct our selves to this God, which brought the people of ⟨p. 429⟩Israel out of Egypt, which is also the very same which hath showed him self in Christ,1 we do not direct our selves to any Idol, nor yet to a false God, but to the true God, who hath so declared him self by his works. For what people is it that may say of the Gods which they worship, that which we may say in deed of our God, the true God of Israel, and father of our Lord Jesus Christ? And for so much as men be so unkind toward God, and that there is nothing more ready and common among them, than to forget his graces and benefits, as the spirit of God doth oftentimes lay to the charge of this people,