A14463:2602

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…

Name: A Christian instruction, containing the law and the Gospel Also a summary of the…
Author: Pierre Viret

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.

Pierre Viret 1511–1571London: printed by Henry Bynneman? for Abraham Veale, 1573

[8], 400, 403-538 p. · 102k words · STC 24778 · ESTC S119199

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The Exposition of the Preface of the Law, set forth by master Pet… › How that the necessity that is here spoken of, is free and commen…: How that the necessity that is here spoken of, is free and commendable in good things…The Exposition of the Preface of the Law, set foorth by maister Pet… › Hovv that the necessitie that is here spoken of, is free and commen…: Hovv that the necessitie that is here spoken of, is free and commendable in good things…

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How that the necessity that is here spoken of, is free and commendable in good things: and how it ought to be otherwise considered in God than in Creatures.

Hovv that the necessitie that is here spoken of, is free and commendable in good things: and hovv it ought to be othervvise considered in God than in Creatures.

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T. Then by as much as I can understand of such matters, if this necessity be sound in a good thing, it is commendable ⟨p. 480⟩& joined with great liberty.

T. THen by as much as I can vnderstand of such matters, if this necessitie be sound in a good thing, it is cōmendable ⟨p. 480⟩& ioined with great libertie.

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D. We do see it in the nature of God, as it hath been already touched. For that which God can not be necessarily but all mighty, all wise, all just, all good, & all perfect, infinite, eternal & immortal, doth not carry with it a necessity of lack, nor constraint, nor yet doth in any respect diminish the power, the glory, & majesty of him, but on the contrary it doth magnify & declare the great excellency & perfection of his nature. For it is not a true liberty & commendation to be able to sin & to do evil: but it is a token of an excellent nature to be so perfect in goodness, that it doth hold in it continually that goodness which it naturally hath, in such sort that it can not by any accident whatsoever it be, be changed, diminished or abolished, it is as if we should say, that it is impossible that God should not be God, & good, and just. Who would not conclude then by that same, that God is not all mighty, & that there is something impossible to him. Are we more strong than he, because we may be wicked, untrue, unjust, & liars, the which he can not be? For goodness is in him a thing which hath

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Author

Pierre Viret 1511–1571

Place

London

Printer

Henry Bynneman?

Bookseller

Abraham Veale

Year

1573

Size

[8], 400, 403-538 p.

Words

101,544

Catalogue

STC 24778 · ESTC S119199

Text

EEBO-TCP A14463

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2,690

Sections

427

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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…

How that the necessity that is here spoken of, is free and commendable in good things: and how it ought to be otherwise considered in God than in Creatures.

Hovv that the necessitie that is here spoken of, is free and commendable in good things: and hovv it ought to be othervvise considered in God than in Creatures.

Of the creation and fall of the Angels, and how that God in the same hath declared the difference that is between the Creator and the Creature, and how it is only he that is perfect and unchangeable.

Of the creation and fall of the Angels, and hovv that God in the same hath declared the difference that is betvveene the Creator and the Creature, and hovv it is onely he that is perfect and vnchaungeable.

Howe that the devil may not impute the fault and fall of his damnation but to him self, and how it is manifest by that fall that there is no unchangeable verity nor constancy but in the nature of God.

Howe that the diuel may not impute the fault and fall of his damnation but to him selfe, and how it is manifest by that fal that ther is no vnchangeable veritie nor constancie but in the nature of God.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

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How that the necessity that is here spoken of, is free and commendable in good things: and how it ought to be otherwise considered in God than in Creatures.

Hovv that the necessitie that is here spoken of, is free and commendable in good things: and hovv it ought to be othervvise considered in God than in Creatures.

Of the creation and fall of the Angels, and how that God in the same hath declared the difference that is between the Creator and the Creature, and how it is only he that is perfect and unchangeable.

Of the creation and fall of the Angels, and hovv that God in the same hath declared the difference that is betvveene the Creator and the Creature, and hovv it is onely he that is perfect and vnchaungeable.

Howe that the devil may not impute the fault and fall of his damnation but to him self, and how it is manifest by that fall that there is no unchangeable verity nor constancy but in the nature of God.

Howe that the diuel may not impute the fault and fall of his damnation but to him selfe, and how it is manifest by that fal that ther is no vnchangeable veritie nor constancie but in the nature of God.

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