A14463:2672
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 deadly and venial sins, and of the difference of them: and in what meaning we ought to understand the sins to be venial or mortal.
Of deadly and veniall sinnes, and of the difference of them: and in vvhat meaning vvee oughte to vnderstande the sinnes to be veniall or mortall.
T. Thou hast now touched one point the which I would gladly understand: which is to say, what sins they be that be venial, and which they be that be mortal: and what is the cause of that difference. If thou wilt consider sin in his own nature, there is no sin but it is deadly, to wit, it bringeth with it death, not only corporal, but also eternal, ⟨p. 528⟩and doth right well deserve it. For if this natural corruption whereof we have already spoken, be in the fight of God worthy of such punishment, if there were no other thing in man, we may well think what it is that the other sorts do deserve, which do daily aggravate the evil and increase it more continually. Wherefore this original sin ought not to be esteemed a small sin, no more ought these buds of concupiscence, and the wicked affections, as many do account them, and chiefly the Papists. For the majesty of God is so great, that there is no rebellion what soever it be, nor root of rebellion & wickedness, but it is a crime of treason against the majesty of God. For God hath not only forbidden the act & consent to evil, but also the very concupiscence it self, although that it do not proceed so far as to the consent: as it appeareth by that which he said, thou shalt not covet, which shall be more plainly declared in his place. Now it is meet that the punishment be given according to the nature of the sin, wherefore seeing that God, against whose majesty the fault is committed, is eternal, it is certain