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 8, 2024.
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Of the sanctifieng of the Church, and of the members of the same.
M.
* 1.1BY what meane is it that God dothe sanctifie hys Churche to hymselfe by his holy Spirite?
P.
By faith in hys Sonne Iesus Christ, by the whiche she is vnited and ioyned to him as is the body to his head. Wherefore she is also a par∣taker of the same very soule which is in the head, the whiche giueth it corporall life. For the head liueth not by one soule, and the rest of the body by an other, but do lyue bothe by one very soule, forso∣muche as the head and all the members of the body are but one body and not sundrye.
Mathevve.
Séeing it is so, none maye then bée of that holy com∣panie
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and assemblie but those which haue true faithe in Iesus Christe, and whiche for that cause are called faithfull.
Peter.
It is easie to vnderstand.
M.
Séeing that they haue faithe, they are all then also made partakers of the giftes of the holie Ghost, the whiche thou hast sayd are pro∣per to the only electe of God, and with∣out the which men maye not be accomp∣ted for gods children, and be heires of the heauenly glorie.
Pe.
Thou mayst thereof iudge by that whiche we haue alreadie heretofore sayde to this purpose: and by consequent thou mayste also iudge what is the estate of such, which by their incre∣dulitie are withoute, and shut from that holie assemblie and companie.
Notes
* 1.1
Ephes. 2. d. 4. b. c. d. 2. Cor. 1. d. Rom. 6. b. 8. b