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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.
50. Question
I pray thee declare this unto me more plainly.
I pray thee declare this vnto mee more plainly.
Answer. Know thou that the copulation of the Sacraments, and of the things ⟨image 50⟩signified by the Sacraments are altogether like. For as Augustine said very wittily: The Sacraments are as it were some visible word, as that which the words sound too the ears, the same they show to the eyes. Therefore they question most fondly here of the real presence, seeing that real presence (or rather of the matter and substance it self) in a certain place, & the Sacramental presence are not indeed continually repugnant and contrary: but yet notwithstanding they so far forth differ betwixt themselves, that that also which in very deed yet is not, yet is sacramentally present: whereto Paul having regard, he sayeth that the Fathers did eat the same meat,1 and drink the same drink, too wit, Christ. And it is so far off, that this Sacramental knitting should be in vain, that contrariwise as we shall say in his place, it is more effectual than any natural copulation.