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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Of the means that the ministers ought to vse, if they may haue no discipline in the Church, nor yet administer the Sacra∣ments in the same vvithout pro∣phaning of them.

Page 377

M.

BVt if the ministers may in no wise obtayne that order & that discipline in the Churche, what should they thē doe▪ shal they be culpable if they do afterward administer the Sacraments indifferently to all commers? yea in déed to those which shewe themselues vtterly vnworthie.

P.

They can neuer haue sufficient excuse, what soeuer they doe alledge, if they doe wittingly pollute and prophane the holy things.

M.

It must thē come to passe that they forbeare vtterly the administration of the Sacraments, or els that thei diuide the shéepe and the lambes from dogges, swine & wolues.

P.

The one or the other must be done. For they may not lawful∣ly accompt for the true Churche and the true mēbers of the same, those which will not range thēselues vnder the discipline of Iesus Christ to giue glory to God by the same as is requisite: but should be ac∣compted as mutines and rebelles against God & his woorde, as themselues doe ma∣nifestly declare.

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