A14463:2648
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.
if it be otherwise, in such a case acknowledge ⟨p. 514⟩him not at all for thy father, because that the devil doth require by him that thou shouldest yield him in thy father that honour which thou owest to thy only God, and that he will make thy father his instrument, but leave that Satan transfigured into the likeness of thy father, and say unto him that thou hast no father for whom thou mayst refuse and leave God thy heavenly and eternal father. For if a father should require his daughter to give over her self unto him, that he mought make her a harlot, or else that he himself mought abuse her, or otherwise that he should deliver her to any whoremaster, ought she to acknowledge such a father for her father? and were she bound to obey him in such a matter?
if it bée otherwise, in suche a case acknowledge ⟨p. 514⟩him not at all for thy father, bycause that the deuill doth require by him that thou shouldest yelde him in thy father that honoure which thou owest to thy only God, and that he will make thy father his instrumente, but leaue that Sathan transfigured into the likenesse of thy father, and say vnto him that thou hast no father for whome thou mayst refuse and leaue God thy heauenly and eternall father. For if a father should require his daughter to giue ouer hir selfe vnto him, that he mought make hir a harlot, or else that he himselfe moughte abuse hir, or otherwise that he shoulde deliuer hir to anye whoremaster, ought she to acknowledge suche a father for hir father? and were she bound to obey him in suche a matter?
T. There is no man if he have so much as one spark of good judgement, but would judge her worthy of great blame if she should do it: and worthy of great praise, if she did rather choose to die than to please her father in such wickedness, for by such means she should not obey to her father, but to a bawd, a whoremaster and an ⟨p. 515⟩