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 6, 2024.
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Of the chiefe felicitie of man, and of the ende for the vvhich he vvas crea∣ted of God.
MATHEVV.
WHat is that whiche natu∣rally men do most desire in this world?
Peter
To be happie.
M
What is it to be happie?
P.
It is to be exempte & deliuered from all euils, to liue in perpetuall rest and ioy, and to enioy al good things.
M.
And wher∣in consisteth the true and chiefest felicitie of man whereby he may be happie in such sorte as thou hast declared?* 1.1
Peter.
It con∣sisteth in that, wherefore GOD hath
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chéefly created him to his image and like∣nesse, and hath put him into the worlde.* 1.2
M.
Which is then the principal cause for the which he hath created and placed him in the worlde?
P.
It is to be glorified in him and by him.
M.
Whiche is the ve∣rie true meane whereby God maye bée glorified in mā, & by man?
P.
By the true knowledge of him, which causeth man to honour him as his God and creator, with that honour whiche is due vnto him, and that he requireth of him.
Notes
* 1.1
Gene. 16.19. b. Prouer. 19. a Esay. 43. a. Ezeche. 36.