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A14463	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.; Instruction chrestienne en la doctrine de la loy et de l'Evangile. English. Selections	Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571.; Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571. Instruction chrestienne et somme generale de la doctrine comprinse ès sainctes Escritures. aut; Shute, John, fl. 1562-1573.	1573 (1573)	STC 24778; ESTC S119199	214,871	552

instructions Of the order that must be holden in the correction of euery mans faults accordyng to the nature and qualitie of the same M. SEing that the Discipline of the Churche is ordeyned for the correction of euerye man of what estate or degrée soeuer he be tell me what order there must be kept in the Ecclesiasticall iudgements towards all those towards whom they are quired P. First of all there must be diligente héede had to the nature and cōdition of the faults and vices whiche deserue iudgement and correction For some there be which require but simple admonition others there are whiche require reprehension and correction the one the more softe the others more sharpe according as men deserue and as tyme and place requireth and as the offences may be either greater or lesser M. And in what sort must men there procéede Muste these censures and corrections be done secretely or publiquely P. Here muste againe be considered the condition of the faultes For if they bée small and secrete a secrete censure and correction maye suffise M. But if they be of great importance and open P. It shall also be néedful that the censure and the correction be the more notable that they whiche haue offended openly be rebuked openly accordingly as S. Paule commaundeth M. And if one haue committed a great fault openly muste it be published for the first Pe. If it be open it is alreadie published Wherfore it is also néedful that the correction be in publique to the ende that the offence be also amended openly to serue to others for an example or otherwise the fault could not be well amended to satisfie the churche according as the discipline therof requireth Of excommunication and of the greatest rigour of the same M. ANd which is the greatest correction that the Churche may vse according to that discipline which is gyuen vnto hir by Iesus Christ P. It is excommunication M. What doth this excommunication emport P. The name therof declareth sufficiently vnto thée that it is an Ecclesiastique correctiō wherby it is declared that they shoulde be at the least shut from the communication of the Sacraments which are worthy of such censure M. Emporteth it nothing els P. yes in déede if it be taken in his extreme rigour M. What is it then that this extreme rigor importeth more yet P. It importeth acording to the expresse word of Iesus Christe that they which haue deserued it are holden and estéemed among Christiās as pagans and infidels in suche sorte that they are not only not receyued to the communion of the Sacraments of the Churche but that also the faithful and true Christians do withdrawe and separate themselues from all familiar conuersation with them to the ende they maye learne to be ashamed of their faultes and to acknowledge them the better to the ende they may attayne true repentance to reconcile and agrée themselues with the Churche of GOD whome they haue offended Of the force of laufull excommunication and of the povver of the keys giuen to the church M. THey are not then shut foorth from the communion of the Sacramentes of the Churche to the ende they shoulde alwayes remayne oute of the Churche Pe. If they continue obstinate in their sinnes not shewing apparaunte testimonie of repentaunce nor reconciling them to God and to hys Churche by the meanes therevnto ordeyned they doe not onely remayne shut foorth from the Communyon of the Sacramentes and from the companye of the faythfull but also from the kingdome of heauen and from eternall lyfe Math. Excommunication is not then a matter of small censequence but is much more to be feared than is a corporall punishement Peter It is certaine if it bée lawfullye doone for so muche as Iesus Chryste hathe giuen to hys Churche the keyes of the Kyngdome of Heauen with suche power as what so euer shée should loose or bynd in earth according to his word shuld be also bound or vnboūd in heauen M. But if the sinner acknowledge his faulte and yelde a true signe of repentaunce and desire to be reconciled and at one with the Churche it is granted vnto him Pe. Euen as the Churche hath power to bind the obstinate so hath she power to loose the penitent and euer according to the worde of God prouided that they accomplishe that whiche true repentaunce and the true discipline of the Churche doe require M. And when the Churche hath in such sort either boūd or loosed any one by the censure of excōmunication wilt thou conclude that God also holdeth him for bounde or loose P. Euen as the Sacraments are not playes for little Children nor playes fained of pleasure but are ordinances and testimonyes of God which represent by exterior ceremonies the spiritual things which in déede are communicated to the faithfull by them So is not excommunication a vayne ceremonie as a iuggling but a sure testimony of God which he hath ordained to signifie and declare which they be that he auoweth for members of hys Church or els that he holdeth for rotten members cut of and cast out of the same and consequently from the kingdome of heauen into the which none maye enter excepte he bée in déede first a member of the Churche and by the meane of the same If excommunication may extende further than to the disobedient M. SEeing then that excommunication belōgeth properly to the disobediēt may they then excōmunicate those which acknowledge their fault how great so euer it be and do giue testimonie euident inough of their repentance before they be excommunicated P. Thou must vnderstande that all disobedience deserueth excommunication and chéefly when a man hath bene admonished thrée times according to the order giuen by Iesus Christe concerning the same and doth not amēd his faults when they be offensiue and of euill example and that they be not onely little infirmities and ignoraunces the which men may not as easily correct as they would but are great offences M. I do well graunte thée that fo● rebellion and contempt of admonitions and warnings is a very great fault and a very euill exāple in the Church of God which ought not there to be endured P. Thou hast also to note that albeit a sinner doe acknowledge his faulte at the first or second admonition and warning that shall be giuen him yet for all that it may be suche that for example the sinner may deserue to be at the least suspended from the communion of the sacraments for a time M. Why so if there be no manifest rebellion P. In part to proue the better the repentance of the sinner and in time the better to iudge whether there be fayning in it or no and apertly to giue example to others to the ende they may he the more afrayde to offende and that al togither they may learne the better to honour the Sacramentes and to take heede howe they contaminate and prophane them by their slaunderous vyces For as it

not with these thrée things following The first is a true acknowledging and sorowfulnesse for his sinnes towards God whiche can not be withoute true confession of the same towards god The second is a stedfast beliefe of the forgiuenesse of his sinnes by Iesus Christe and a true assurance of saluation through him The thirde is a true and perfecte charitie towardes our neybor For this holy Sacramēt requireth all these things for so much as it is the sacramente of the agréemēt and vnion that we haue wyth God by Iesus Christe and with all hys Church and all the true members of the same Wherefore it must be of necessitie that euery mā examine him selfe in these points that he may go to it worthily and not to his condemnation according to the doctrine of Sainct Paule to that purpose Of the penance and sanctification of the Christians and of the true originall of the same of al good works Chap. 44. AS concerning the repentance and pēnance which is required of euery christian the holy Scripture vnderstandeth not thereby that whiche improperly the Papists call pennance For they through greate abuse and ignoraunce of the language do call penance their satisfactions by the whiche they thinke to satisfie God by their owne works and by their Ceremonies and superstitions But the worde of God taketh pennance and repentance for a true acknowledging and sorowe for sinne the which true acknowledging and true displeasure do procéede of the true feare of God and of a true reuerence and loue towardes him conioyned with a certayne assurance of his goodnesse and mercie and with a true amendmente of life by the whiche a christian man doth dedicate him selfe to the seruice of God as in time before he was dedicated to the seruice of the Deuill to the end he may serue to iustice and holynesse where before he serued sinne iniquitie For in this lyeth the sanctification of man the which sanctificatiō is the very frute of true faith which worketh thorough charitie as she is the originall of euery good worke Of the true and Christian confession and absolution and of the remission of sinnes Chap. 45. AS concerning confession and absolution the worde of God doth not acknowlege or receiue any such as the Papists do make in the eare of their préests to haue absolution and remission of theyr sinnes by them For the holy Scriptures shewe vs none other that can pardon sins but only god And by consequent they appoint vs none other to whom we must make confession for to obteyne absolution and pardon In like sorte we haue no example in all the true seruantes of God of any other confession and absolution for the remission of sinnes towardes God the which he giueth not but in his Churche and to the true members of the same Of the power of ministers of the Church to pardon or reteyne sinnes Chap. 46 AS for the ministers of the Churche they haue none other power to pardon or reteyne them but so farre as they vse the keyes whiche the Lorde hath committed vnto them as to the ministers of his Churche to whome he hath giuen them and in so doing they do declare by his worde howe the sinnes be forgiuen to those that beléeue and reteyned to the vnbeleuing This is the true absolution of the Christian Churche by the which God doth ratifie and binde or vnbinde in heauen that which they declare and do binde or lose vppon earth by his worde and in his name For this power is giuen vnto them bicause he speaketh by their mouth and it is he himselfe that bindeth and looseth and that dothe pardon and retayne sinnes by that same very worde whereof they are but ministers This is the true and lawfull vse of the keyes the whiche the Lorde hath giuen to his Church the execution whereof the Churche hath since committed to the ministers the whiche she hath chosen therevnto by lawfull vocation Of brotherly reconciliation Chap. 47. MOreouer euen as God woulde that euery man should confesse his faults to obteine forgiuenesse euen so he would that suche as haue offended either the Churche in generall or any of the members of the same and of their brethren in particuler should acknowledge and confesse their faulte so farre forth as the true discipline of the Churche and Christian Charitie do require and that they reconcile themselues with those whome they haue offended and haue done wrong vnto For such thing is required to repaire the slander and offence which they haue made to entertain the peace the vnion and the Christian charitie in the Church Of the satisfaction towarde our neighboure Chap. 48. THis reconciliation bringeth with it also satisfactiō of that wherin euery mā is bounde to his brother so farre forth as he shall be able to do by Christian charitie For albeit that there is none other but the satisfaction of Iesus Christe only that may satisfie for vs at the iudgement of God yet for all that the same doth not abolish this satisfaction which is to satisfie vnto men for so much as it is a frute of the true repentance and of the true iustification and sanctification of a Chrstian man For it is not a signe that a mā doth in dede repente him of his faulte and of the wrong that he hath done to his brother so long as he shall not recompence him according to the meanes that God shall giue him Of the Churche and of the foundation of the same and of hir head Chap. 49. THis faith and doctrine is the true faith and doctrine of the true Christiā church vppon the whiche she is builded and by the which she doth communicate of al the benefites of Iesus Christe of whiche we haue spoken heretofore For we vnderstande by the Churche the felowship and cōmunaltie of all the true faithful which are the members of the body of Iesus Christe whiche do acknowledge him for their only head and none other whatsoeuer but do condemne the Pope whiche maketh himselfe the head as very Antichriste And in like sorte they do also accompt the Church the which acknowledgeth him for hir head not for a true christian Churche but for a Sinagogue of Sathan Of the markes whereby to knovve in thys world which is the true Church and who are to be accoumpted for true members of the same Chap. 50. THe marks whereby men may knowe in this world which is the true church of Iesus Christ are these to wit the lawfull administration of the pure worde of God and of his holy Sacraments and the allowing of the same with true obedience towards the ministerie the whiche the Lorde hath therin ordeyned I do comprehende vnder this alowing and obedience the submission and the discipline the which Iesus Christ hath ordeyned in his Church and the pure and full obseruation of the same as it hath bin obserued and practised in the ancient Churche ruled by the doctrine