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 2, 2024.
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Page 156
M.
WIlt thou say, that all those whi∣che are called by suche vocation are chosen, and in like sorte that all those which are chosen are so called?
P.
It must be so vnderstoode. For such a vocation is an effecte of the election whereby a man may iudge of the cause.
M.
And as con∣cerning those whiche are called of that first calling, which thou callest outward, maye they bée called without béeing cho∣sen?* 1.1
P.
Thou mayst iudge by that which Iesus Christ sayde: There be many cal∣led, but fewe are chosen.
M.
Thou mea∣nest then in myne opinion, that the very reprobates maye be called by outewarde vocation, but that it profiteth them no∣thing, except the inward be there ioyned with it.* 1.2
P.
As concernyng them, it ser∣ueth them but to their greater condem∣nation. For it is to their greater condem∣nation, for so muche as the grace of God was offered vnto them, & that they haue reiected it thorowe their ingratitude and vnbeléefe, as though it had neuer ben of∣fered vnto them, yet in the meane tyme, it is not altogether in vayne,
M.
Wher∣vnto dothe it then serue?
P.
To declare
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better the peruersitie of mē, and to make them more inexcusable at the iudgement of God, and to set foorthe the better hys great iustice in their iust condemnation.
M.
It then followeth by that which thou haste sayde, that those which are not cal∣led, but only by this outwarde calling, are not also iustified, nor consequentlye glorified?
P.
It is easye to iudge. For if they were iustified, they should haue also receyued the worde of God through fayth, which only doth iustifie, and with∣out the whiche none can be iustified, as thou haste here before heard. And if they had the fayth whereby man is iustified, they shuld not be only called by that out∣warde callyng, but also by the inwarde, whiche is euer ioyned with faith, of the whiche the faith is a sure testimonie.
Notes
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* 1.1
Matth. 20. b
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* 1.2
Iohn. 3. e.