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The other part of Christian questions and answers which is concerning the sacraments, writ[n]…The other parte of Christian questions and answeares which is concerning the sacraments, writte[n]…
The other part of Christian questions and answers which is concerning the sacraments, writ[n] by Theodore Beza Vezelian: to which is added a large table of the same questions. Translated out of Latin into English by John Field.The other parte of Christian questions and answeares which is concerning the sacraments, writte[n] by Theodore Beza Vezelian: to which is added a large table of the same questions. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by Iohn Field.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Thomas Woodcocke, 1580
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
15. Question.
What virtue therefore have these voices & words?
What vertue therefore haue these voyces & words?
Answer. They have this virtue to show unto us the will of God of any matter, whether he promise, threaten or command, or to be short, whether he do this or that. And I say that nothing else is too be attributed to the words pronounced of any, but that they be signs of those things which they are said to be. I add, for the Church, that I may distinguish those particular & momentary sacraments, which belong to the whole company of the faithful, & ⟨image 36⟩belong to a continual use from them, I add farther by whose use, that I may confute their gross error who dream I cannot tell of what divine quality infused into the signs, which they should have without the use it self, whereupon have followed infinite superstitions very ridiculous, that I speak no worse of them.
Answeare. They haue this vertue to shew vnto vs the wil of God of any matter, whether he promise, threatē or cōmand, or to bee short, whether he do this or that. And I say that nothing els is too be attributed to the words pronoūced of any, but that they be signes of those thinges wc they are said to be. I adde, for the Church, that I may distinguish those particular & momentarie sacraments, which belōg to the whole company of the faithfull, &