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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.
71. Question
But in what things differ they?
But in what thinges differ they?
Answer. First they differ in the signs (by which I understand the Sacramental rites them selves) which we have more spiritual & fewer & less laboursome, further in the plainness of the word, which in ours is much more clearer: whereupon also groweth another difference in the very measure of the efficacy and operation it self. For the more plain and manifest the word is, the more ought we to be moved, and therefore the more effectual ought our faith to be. Whereto also belong the words of the selfsame ⟨image 60⟩Augustine, that our Sacrament are fewer, easier, more significant, and more full of Majesty: to which also that may be added, that these differ in this, because they were instituted only until the coming of Christ: but ours shall take no end but with the world.
Answere. Firste they differ in the signes (by which I vnderstande the Sacramentall rytes them selues) which we haue more spiritual & fewer & lesse laborsome, further in the playnesse of the word, which in ours is much more clearer: whervpō also groweth another difference in the very measure of the efficacy and operation it selfe. For the more playne and manifest the woorde is, the more ought wee to be moued, and therfore the more effectual ought our faith to be. Wherto also belong the woordes of the selfsame