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.

How the deliueraunce of the people of Is∣rael out of Egipt, was a shadow and figure of the deliuerance which is made by christ Iesus, and howe the Christian people are comprehended in the people of Israel, and their deliueraunce also in the deliueraunce of that people.

T.

BY this meane the Christians shall then be one people with the people of Israell.

D.

There is no doubt therof, for séeing that people was chosen of God to bée as the keeper and treasurer of hys worde & of his promisses, to the ende that by that same meane they shold come euē to vs, and be fulfilled in vs, & that it was the shadow & figure of true things which were brought vnto vs by Iesus Christ, there is no doubt but that wée are com∣prehended in the same. And séeyng that this delyueraunce from the tyranny of Egypte was a figure of thys other and great deliuerāce which wée haue through

Iesus Christ our Lorde: there can be no mention made of the firste, but that wée ought to haue the second in remēbrance, and to giue vs to vnderstande, that if the people of Israell had great occasion to embrace the lawe whych was gyuen to them by God, and to endeuor them to o∣bey him accordyng to the same, for the causes heretofore alleged: for one occasiō that they had so to doe, wée haue a thou∣sand, for so much as GOD hath shewed himselfe by thys delyuerance, which he hath wrought for vs by his Sonne Ie∣sus Chryst our God, muche more fauo∣rable without comparison, than euer hée dyd shew himselfe to the Israelites. For albeit that both they and wée haue but one Christ Iesus, and one verye meane of saluation through hym, yet for al that, thys saluatyon hath beene muche more playnely declared vnto vs, and muche more excellentlye wythoute shadowes and fygures, and muche more familiarly and in farre greater power of the spirite of GOD than euer it was to them. Wherefore séeing the spirituall Israe∣lites, and the true Chrystians are but

one people, wée muste knowe that that whych hath regarde and pertayneth vn∣to the one, hath regard and doth pertaine to the other, in that which doth concerne the true spirituall seruice of GOD, the which God requireth, as well of the one as of the other.