A14463:2688
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.
What mean it behoveth to keep to fight against sin and to resist it, and to be delivered from it, and how every man ought to fear least he should be hardened therein, and should fight against his own conscience, to the end that sin be not to death.
VVhat meane it behoueth to kepe to fight against sinne and to resist it, and to be deliuered from it, and how euery mā ought to feare least he shuld be hardned therin, and should fight against his ovvne conscience, to the ende that sinne be not to death.
T. Show me then what remedy we may find to avoid this great mischief.
T. SHewe me thē what remedy we may finde to auoide this great mischiefe.
D. If we do walk according to the spirit, and not according to the flesh, immediately as soon as our concupiscence doth prick us, we must resist it by the spirit of God, if we do not resist it, it is a token that the spirit of God dwelleth not in us, which is a sure token of the unfaithful who follow their concupiscence without any let, without any fear of God at all, if we do resist it, and that our concupiscence and infirmity doth overcome us, the next remedy is not to suffer the wicked will to proceed any further: if that the violence of the wicked will and our infirmity be so great, that it break forth to the outward work, the other nearest remedy is, not to •ake an occupation of it, nor to return ⟨p. 537⟩any more to it, nor to continue any longer therein, but by true repentance, to correct all such faults, as well inward as outward, and to lead a good life. If it happen us to fall again into any at any time, let us take heed that we sleep not in it, nor yet persevere in it, least that God do leave us, and do harden our hearts, & cast us off into a reprobate sense, to punish our unkindness and frowardness in such sort, that in the end we come to resist the spirit of God,