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A14462	The firste parte of the Christian instruction, and generall so[m]me of the doctrine, conteyned in the holy Scriptures wherein the principall pointes of the religion are familiarly handled by dialogues, very necessary to be read of all Christians. Translated into Englishe, by Iohn Shute, accordyng to the late copy set forth, by th'author Maister Peter Viret. 1565. Ouersene and perused, accordyng to the order appointed, by the Queenes maiesties iniunctions.; Instruction chrestienne et somme generale de la doctrine comprinse ès sainctes Escritures. Part 1. English	Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571.; Shute, John, fl. 1562-1573.	1565 (1565)	STC 24777; ESTC S119198	167,989	225

cloke therwith their disobedience rebellion against the word of God for whē al is said theris but one thing that hindereth all this to wit that such mē will not be obedient to the voyce of the Lord nor take coūsell of him nor folowe him But for so muche as they dare not say and declare the same openly bycause that they will not be knowen to be such as they are in dede but would be thought of mē to be honest and such as feare God they seke these shiftes and starting holes They are lyke to those aduocates that pleade an euill cause who haue determined to do no right to their contrarie partie but seeke onely by cauilling how to shift out the matter bycause that they will neuer be enforced to grow to any honeste ende ¶ Of the langage that is in the heart of the hypocrites vvicked and hovv they cloke it before the vvorld D. THou hast stricken the white in the middest and haste touched the very pithe of that vniuersall disease that raygneth throughe out the worlde the whiche Iesus Christ doth thorowly open vnto vs when he sayeth speakyng of hys doctrine That he that is desirous to do the will of hys Iohn vii father shall soone knowe whether it be of God or no. There is but one thing that disguiseth this whole matter which is that some of them can couer and cloke otherwise and more finely then can the others T. It is certayne without any circumlocution that those whiche searche out such starting holes should rather say euen at one worde that whiche the wicked ones spake of whom the Scripture in the boke of the Prophetes declareth sayinge we haue nothyng to do with Esay lviii Psal ii God We will not knowe hys wayes nor walke in the same nor yet beare hys yoke D. It is very true But that shoulde not bee so honorable for them nor haue so good a grace For although they speake it in theyr heart they will in no wise that the world vnderstand it yea and that which is more vile they ar so beastly do so much delight in their folly and filthy sophistrie that they thincke euē by the same to be able to abuse and mocke God euen as they abuse and mocke men as though he sawe not the wickednes of their hartes and wanted wisedom vnderstanding how to trap the subtil and craftie in their cauteles and finesses ¶ Of the persecutours of the veritie and of the diuerse sortes of them T. NOw if those of whō we haue already spoken haue very slender reason to alledge howe do you thincke of those that are not contented with such excuses but employ their whole forces to persecute the truth of God and as many as will teach folow the same D. There are thre sortes of these kinde of people there are of them that persecute the truth and those that folowe it of a certaine malice euen against the witnesse that the spirit of God yeldeth in their own consciences onely for hatred that they beare agaynste God and his truth There ar also others which do it not so much for hatered that they beare agaynst the truth as for the honors and riches which they hope to obtaine by resisting the same or els that they haue already obtayned The third are those that do the like throughe ignoraunce ¶ Of such as persecute the truth of a purposed malice and of the sinne agaynst the holy Ghost or sinne to death T. WHat sayest thou of the first sorte of those men D. I say that they are of the very nature of the deuill for he hath no cause to hate God and his truth but onely of the wickednes that is in hym and of the enuie and immortall hatered that he doth beare to God and his truth T. Then is the sinne of suche men lyke to the sinne of the deuill D. It is euen so wherfore they shall haue lyke punishment for they shall neuer obtayne pardon nor grace T. It is then that sinne that Iesus Christ doth call the sinne agaynst the holy Ghost and saint Iohn sinne vnto death for the which Math. xii Iohn 5. he forbiddeth men to praye But thinckest thou that there are any so wicked and so full of malice vpon the earth that wil so of purpose make warres against God D. If ther wer none then would none haue bene found amōg the Scribes and Phariseis and the rest of the Iewes before whom Iesus Christe made mencion of the sinne agaynst the holye Ghost I do thinke he would haue holden no suche purpose ne yet Sainte Iohn neither And I am well assured that Alexander the Coppersmith of whom Sainte Paule complaineth much writing to Timothe did very nere approch the nature of such if he were not fully such an one or els I should greatly marueil of the prayer that saint Paule maketh ii Tim. iiii against him saying Alexander the Copersmyth hath done me great hurt the Lord reward him according to hys desertes of whom be thou ware also for he hath greatly resisted our preaching If he had offended rather of ignorāce then of malice I beleue that Saint Paule woulde rather haue praied for him as he did in the same epistle for others with whom he was not well pleased I doubt not but he would haue followed the example of Iesus Christe and of saint Steuen who prayed for their persecutours rather then to haue prayed against him For it semeth that he had no hope of his conuersion and health T. Men may cal these kinde of men the most wicked of all wicked and the eldest sonnes of the deuil But it is wonderful to see them so wicked and to see them so dispitefully to make wars agaynst God and his truth and yet they wyll couer them with the name of God of the zeale of his glorye For ther is none be he neuer so euil if he be not vtterly desperate but when he persecuteth the truth he wil pretend to fauour the same and would that men should thinke that he persecuteth not the truth but errour and lyes for the mayntenāce of Gods truth D. The matter is verye apparant namelye in the Scribes and Phariseis and in the bishops high Priestes Princes of Ierusalem which crucified Iesus Christe and Math. 24. 27. 28. Iohn 5. 8. 10. 11. 18. 19 yet fayned that they persecuted him for blasphemyng ▪ the maiesty of God Wherfore the more that suche men so villanously abuse the name of God wherewith to couer their murders and wickednes the more are they accursed and worthie of greater iudgement ¶ Of those that resiste the truth vvittingly and do persecute it agaynst their ovvne consciences to please men therby and to get the riches of this vvorlde and of the calamities of these dayes T. LEt vs leaue this first kinde of men and let vs speake of the other two kindes of persecutours whom thou hast already named D. The second

the same but onely in y● that Rome shall haue receaued it frō thence for it is the rule by that which the church of Rome the doctrine of the same must be ruled and not it by the church or doctrine of Rome That same then which was done in Ierusalem on the day of Pentecost Actes ii in the company of the Apostles Disciples of Iesus Christ was done to the ende that the Apostles and Disciples of Iesus Christ being armed with y● power of the spirite of God frō on high and with that goodly gift of tonges should as Acte 1. lawfull and authorised Ambassadours Heraldes of thys great King and sonne of the eternall God shewe and proclayme through out the vniuersall worlde the determination of this deuine and heauenly Councell fyrst publyshed declared by their Lord and Maister Iesus Christ with the blessings and curses prepared for those which shall receaue or refuse it It is the laste determination vnto the which we must cleaue and sticke which hath againe sithe that tyme ben cōfirmed by the miracles and death of so many Apostles and Martyrs that the number is in maner infinite It is a determination of such importance of such authoritie that the Apostles thē selues yea the very Angels of heauen must be subiecte vnto it in such sort that it is by no meanes lawfull for them to set forth or declare any other doctrine then that Gal. 1. 2. of the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ vpon payne of eternall cursing and not without cause For seing that the sonne of God hath spoken is there anye creature in heauen or in Heb. i Gal. i ii earth that may correcte it If then according to the witnes of Saint Paule the curse and maledictiō of this great Councell be suche let vs then see in what sorte we ought to esteeme those which dare to take in hande that which neyther Apostle nor Aungell what so euer he be eyther dare or will and in what daunger they put them selues that will followe and harken vnto such men ¶ Of the vengeaunce of God agaynste those that despyse the Gospell T. MEn ought to consider and thinke wel on that which thou sayest and truely God hath geuen vs a greate gifte and hath shewed vnto vs a great token of loue when that after thys greate and worthye personage Moyses and so manye other excellent Patriarches and Prophetes he woulde also sende hys owne Sonne and woulde himselfe speake vnto vs by hym and teache vs the true and ryghte waye of sauation and woulde leade and bryng vs thither Esay ii Mich. iiii by hym as a good father leadeth hys little chylde by the hande Therefore we shoulde be verye vnhappye if we would not followe such a guide for if we will not heare the voyce of the very Sonne of God and truste in him whom shall we heare and whom shall we beleue We may well saye with S. Peter Lorde to whom shall we goe For thou haste the woorde of eternall life D. The testimonie that Iohn vi hath beene recited oute of the Epistle to the Hebrewes doth shewe vs playnelye into what daunger we put our selues if wee dyspyse the doctrine whiche the Sonne of GOD hath broughte vnto vs from heauen which ringeth in hys Church thorowe the mouth of his Ministers and is daylye set before vs in the holy Scriptures T. It is greatlye to be feared that if they which dispised the doctrine whiche was brought vnto them by the seruaunt were so grieuously punished Heb x they which shall contemne the Lord and Master deserue to be double punished D. For y● very cause our Lorde Iesus Christ sayd that the iudgement shall bee more easye Math. x Marck vi Luk. ix x againste those of Sodome and of Gomorre then agaynste them that would not receaue his Gospell and the bringers of the same ¶ Of the difference that men do commonly put betvvene the lavve of rigor and the lavve of grace and of the abuse that therein is T. HOw doe these thinges agree then with the difference that we sée men put commonly betwene the olde and the new Testament and betwene the law of Moyses which was geuen to the Iewes and the lawe of Iesus Christ geuen to the Christians For men do commonly cal y● of Moyses and the olde Testament the lawe of rigour and that of Iesus Christ and the newe Testament the lawe of grace D. Do these men which make that distinction thinke that God is chaunged since the time that he gaue his lawe by Moyses that he doth not as much hate iniquitie now as he did then Do they thinke that he can better endure the outrage that is done to his own Sonne then he could do that which was done to his seruaunt Doe they thinke that Iesus Christ came into the world to encrease allowe sinne and not rather to make it more more hatefull and to put it away T. It is like so for if a man do alledge that adulterie must be punyshed and will shewe howe much it displeaseth God for so Leuit. x Deut. 22 much as he cōmaunded in the law of Moyses that adulteries should be punished by death they haue forthwith their recourse to this distinction of the law of rigour of grace saying that we are vnder the lawe of grace and not vnder the law of rigor And although they do the like in diuers other such crymes yet is there none to whom they woulde make this law of grace more beneficiall then to whores whoremaisters D. Wherfore do they not then cause that law of grace to be as fauourable to theues whom they condemne to death which the lawe of Moyses doth not as it doth the adulterers But what is the cause that murtherers theues Exod. 22 Prou. ● and all other euill doers are punished why haue they no part of this lawe of grace T. They thinke that they haue greater reason concerning the punishment of adulteryes because that Iesus Christ would not condemne the womā Iohn viii which was taken in adulterie and brought vnto him by the Iewes D. Will they by that meane conclude that Iesus Christ did more fauour adulteries thē he did other offences and crimes They are therin greatly deceaued For Iesus Christ did not that which he did in that matter to geue men to vnderstand that whores and whoremaisters shoulde remayne vnpunished but for y● that his office tended not therunto and that he woulde confound the hypocrisie of those which had brought her vnto him and therefore he woulde haue done no lesse touching any other offence Therfore we may not in this sort abuse the grace which is brought vnto vs by Iesus Christ T. Yet notwithstanding y● matter passeth so at this daye ¶ Of the difference and diuersitie of the lavves of Moyses and of their nature D. IT is very true as it hath beene alreadie declared els