A14463:2588
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.
D. There are many things to be considered in this matter. The first is, that it behoveth to put difference between necessity and constraint. For by wanting this distinction, many do very filthily err in the matter of free will, and of predestination, and in the consideration of the nature of sin. For to speak properly, ⟨p. 470⟩we may say that we do all sin of necessity and not by constraint.
D. There are many thinges to be considered in this matter. The first is, that it behoueth to put difference betwéene necessitie and constraint. For by wanting this distinction, many doe very filthily erre in the matter of frée will, and of predestination, and in the consideration of the nature of sin. For to speke properly, ⟨p. 470⟩we may say that we do all sinne of necessitie and not by constraynt.
T. What difference puttest thou then between necessity and constraint? for they seem to me to be both one.
T. What difference puttest thou then betwene necessitie and constraynt? for they séeme to me to be both one.
D. Yea, but there is notwithstanding great difference, but it is requisite for the better understanding of it, that we do first well consider in what meaning and in what signification these words ought to be taken. First of all, this word of necessity, is commonly for want of some thing whereof we have need, in such sort that we do oftentimes take it for lack, poverty and misery, but we do not properly take it in that sense, when we do speak of the necessity whereby man is brought to sin by mean of the natural corruption that is in him: but so far forth as we may say that he sinneth by necessity, that is to say through default and lack of goodness, justice, innocency, holiness, and other virtues and gifts and graces of God, whereof he hath ben spoiled through sin, unto whom he was made subject.