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.
Author
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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Of the difference that is betweene the lawe and the Gospell.
D.
What difference dost thou put be∣twéene the lawe and the Gospell?
An.
I take the lawe,* 1.1 for that doctrine by the whiche God doth teache vs wherein we are bound to him, to witte, whiche is the euill that we oughte to flée, and the good which we ought to folowe to please hym according to his holy will.
De.
And by the Gospell, what dost thou vnderstand?
An.
The doctrine by the whiche God doth teach vs, by what meane we may satis∣fie that whiche he requireth of vs in hys lawe, and obteyne pardō and forgiuenesse
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of the offences which we shall haue com∣mitted, contrary to his holy will.