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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.
37. Question,
But doeth this form change the substance of the signs?
But doeth this forme change the substance of the signes?
Answer. No not so. For they should cease too be signs, if they were changed into any other substance: because the Analogy or proportion, wherein consisteth the whole consideration of the Sacraments, should perish. There is therefore a Sacramental change, but not a substantial, that is, not consisting in the change of the thing it self, but in the use thereof changed, as when water is made the Sacrament of the blood of Christ, and bread the Sacrament of his body, and wine also of his blood.
Answeare. No not so. For they should cease too be signes, if they were changed into any other substaunce: because the Analogie or proportion, wherein consisteth the whole consideration of the Sacramēts, shoulde perishe. There is therefore a Sacramentall chaunge, but not a substantiall, that is, not consisting in the chaunge of the thing it selfe, but in the vse thereof changed, as when water is made the Sacrament of the blood of Christ, and breade the Sacrament of his bodie, and wine also of his blood.