A10170:319
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.
70. Question.
Show me therefore how they do agree
Shewe me therefore how they doe agree
Answer. First of all they agree in the efficient ⟨image 59⟩cause. For Christ our only lawgiver appointed both these and them: further they agree in the inward thing it self. For Christ was that same tree of life in Paradise, that same Lamb slain from the beginning of the world, that same Paschal of the Fathers, taking away the sins of the world, that same spiritual Rock, that same meat and drink of the Fathers, which thing also is to be thought of those same types and figures, and to be short, of all the old Sacraments. For very rightly and truly sayeth Augustine in the six and twenty Treatise upon John, that the Sacraments of the Fathers in respect of the signs, were divers from ours, but concerning the signification they were alike. They agree also in the word concerning the substance, albeit the voices be not the same. For there is signified in the word of institution, that Christ and his gifts are offered unto us in either, to the Fathers as to come, but to us which come already: moreover in both two there ⟨image 60⟩