A14463:509
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.
A. By those same ministers, to whom the charge to administer the word of God, hath been committed by lawful order, as he hath ordained in his Church.
A. By those same ministers, to whome the charge to administer the worde of God, hath bene committed by lawfull order, as he hathe ordeyned in his Churche.
De. Is it lawful then for none other?
De. Is it lawfull then for none other?
An. As GOD ⟨p. 87⟩hath ordained that there should be in the common wealth certain Magistrates and officers, for the administration of civil and earthly matters, to the end there should be no confusion: even so hath he willed his Church to have her ministers chosen by lawful vocation, as his officers for the administration of Ecclesiastical and spiritual matters,1 to the end that every thing be there handled and governed by good order.
An. As GOD ⟨p. 87⟩hath ordeyned that there should be in the common wealth certain Magistrates and officers, for the administration of ciuile and earthlye matters, to the ende there shoulde be no confusion: euen so hathe he willed his Churche to haue hir ministers chosen by lawfull vocation, as his officers for the administration of Ecclesiasticall and spirituall matters,1