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 5, 2024.
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M.
WHich is the other point that thou sayest I had to note vppon thys matter?
P.
It is that we must consider the knowledge of God in two sortes.
M.
How is that?
P.
There is one knowledge of God whiche causeth men as soone as they haue it, to glorifie him as belongeth vnto him. That is the true knowledge of God whiche deserueth suche a name, and which is proper to the only elect of God, and is neuer separate from true faith in him.
M.
What other sorte of knowledge is there yet?
P.
There is one generall and common to all as well faithfull as vn∣faithfull, the which is sufficient inough to condemne all men before God, but not to saue them.
M.
Howe doest thou vnder∣stande that it is sufficient to condemne, and not to saue? For it séemeth to me that it were better not to haue suche a know∣ledge than to haue it.
P.
It is the know∣ledge of God, whereof Sainct Paule spe∣keth in the beginning of the epistle to the Romaines, the which condemneth men, in somuche as they haue sufficient know∣ledge of God to know that they oughte to honoure and glorifie him, and yet not∣withstanding,
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they neyther honoure nor glorifie him according as he hath declared himselfe to them, and as they know him:* 1.1 wherein they shew their malice, peruer∣sitie, and ingratitude, the whiche maketh them wholly inexcusable.
M.
But séeing that this knowledge is not so greate that it can induce vs to glorifie God as is méete, is there at all no excuse for them?
P.
If they did glorifie him according to the measure of their knowledge, there shuld be yet some apparance in that which thou sayest, albeit that ignorance shall excuse no man, forsomuche as it procéedeth of sinne, whereof the faulte cannot be im∣puted but to man. But they shew theyr naturall peruersitie and malice in the same, that they make none accoumpte to glorifie God as God, accordingly as they know him.
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* 1.1
Rom. 1. c