A14463:573
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.
P. I deny not but that which is done to the honour of God, doth please him, and that which is done with a good intent, is well done: but to the end that no man deceive himself under this fair colour, I say, that nothing can be done to the honour of God nor with a good intent, but that which is done according to his word, for the word of God is the very true and only rule of all good intents, and of the honour wherewith he ought to be honoured.
P. I denie not but that whiche is done to the honoure of God, doth please him, and that whiche is done with a good intent, is well done: but to the ende that no man deceiue himselfe vnder this faire coloure, I say, that nothing can be done to the honoure of God nor with a good intente, but that which is done according to his word, for the word of God is the very true and only rule of all good intents, and of the honoure wherewith he ought to be honoured.
M. But if a man do think to do well, and doth that which he doth to none other end but to honour God, is not that enough?
M. But if a man do think to do well, and doth that whiche he doth to none other ende but to honoure God, is not that inough?
P. If there were but that required, it had not ben needful that God ⟨p. 96⟩should ever have spoken: or that he should ever have given a law unto man, to teach him.
P. If there were but that required, it had not ben nedeful that God ⟨p. 96⟩should euer haue spoken: or that he shuld euer haue giuen a law vnto man, to teach him.