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 10, 2024.
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Of the voice of God vvhich vvas heard by men, and of his lavve giuen by the Angels.
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ANd what sayest thou concernyng the other pointes?
D.
Albeit that God haue no body as concernyng his di∣uine essence or beyng, nor voice like vnto the voyce of man, so is it (notwithstan∣ding) an easie matter for him, to whome nothing is impossible, to make him selfe a voyce, and to take such forme and like∣nesse as pleaseth him, to cause him to be heard and knowen,* 1.1 so farre sorth as is méete for the saluation of man, & the in∣firmitie of mā may endure. And also there is no inconuenient, to say that the lawe which God gaue, was giuen by Angels, for so much as God was serued by their
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ministerie in the giuing of it, and that his maiestie was not there shewed, but being accompanied with his Angels,* 1.2 which are alwaies prepared & ready to serue him, wherefore both the one and the other is true, to wéet, that God himself did speake & giue his lawe, and that it was giuen by the ministerie of his Angels.