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.
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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.
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Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571.
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Imprinted at London :: By [Henry Bynneman? for] Abraham Veale, dwelling in Paules churchyard at the signe of the Lambe,
Anno. 1573.
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14463.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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Hovve nedefull it is, that all Christians doe vvell knovv vvhat faith is, vvherby they are made Christians, & vvhat things she doth comprehend. Chap. 1.
WHOSOEVER dothe be∣léeue the testimonie whi∣che God in his word doth yelde of his will, holdeth alreadie for certaine, that the saluation of men, by the which God will be glorified in them, resteth in the only faith in Iesus Christe,* 1.1 and that from the heart men beleue to iu∣stification, & with the mouthe men make confession wherby they are saued. Wher∣fore séeing it is so, it is néedfull, not only that euery true Christian do well vnder∣stand what is the nature of the true faith, and which are the principall pointes that
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she conteineth (without the which she can¦not be a true and perfecte faithe) but also that he be wel resolued in them. For faith can not be a true faithe, without the true knowledge of the things that she belée∣ueth, so farre as God hath reuealed by his worde, and is requisite for euery man to knowe for his saluation. Wherefore they which know not, nor do vnderstand at all that whiche they say they do beléeue, haue no faith at al, but by imagination and fan∣tasie, whatsoeuer they doe persuade them¦selues to haue.