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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
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68. Question.
I had almost quite forgotten that which I would gladly have asked of thee, to wit, how it is that Saint Augustine writeth, as thou hast cited, that the Sacraments can work no such astonishment as miraculous things do, if that same mystery of the uniting of Christ and his Church together be so wonderful.
I had almost quite forgotten that which I woulde gladly haue asked of thee, to wyt, howe it is that Sainct Augustine writeth, as thou hast cyted, that the Sacramentes can worke no suche astonishment as miraculous thinges doe, if that same mystery of the vniting of Christ and his Church together be so wonderfull.
Answer. I have answered unto that already, that it is one thing to ask of the Sacraments themselves, another thing of those things which God doth work by the use of them. Augustine therefore doeth very well forbid, whether we respect the nature of the Sacraments or the Sacraments them selves, that they should be numbered amongest miracles, because it is not strange, neither also against the order of natural things, that some thing for the analogy and proportion, and also by the covenant of men should be used for the signifying of some thing altogether differing from the nature thereof. For I beseech thee, what miracle is it that the betrothing of marriage to come, should be signified by a Ring: and putting into possession of houses, should not only be signified by the delivering of a Key, but also confirmed? There is the like reason altogether to be had of the Sacraments, although not particularly