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 May 26, 2024.
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Of the woorkes of the holye Ghost in the conception of Iesus Christ.
M.
BVt if he haue taken his fleshe of the line and of the proper fleshe of men, who are all sinners, howe could he be more without sinne in his fleshe, than other men?
P.
The angel hath answered this difficultie when he sayd to the virgin that she should conceiue the sonne of God by the power and workyng of the holye Ghost.
Mathevve.
What meanest thou by that vertue and working of the holie Ghost?
P.
I meane that the holy Ghost wrought in that conception so by hys di∣uine power, that the fleshe whyche Ie∣sus
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Christe tooke of the Virgine Marie, was in suche sorte sanctifyed, that he dyd purifie and exempt it from all sinne, and from all the corruption, whereby the whole nature of man is corrupted, by∣cause of sinne that is naturally in it.