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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.
Answer. Verily I am very well content, that also the mouths of the Sophisters may be shut up. If thou being altogether ignorant of these mysteries, shouldest see some circumcised, what wouldest thou think of it?
Answeare. Verily I am very well content, that also the mouthes of the Sophisters may be shut vp. If thou beyng altogether ignorant of these mysteries, shouldest see some circumcised, what wouldest thou thinke of it?
Question. Surely I would think the Parents to be very cruel towards their new borne babe, so that I should utterly detest them, unless I should understand their meaning to be otherwise.
Question. Surely I would thinke the Parents to be very cruell towardes their newe borne babe, so that I shoulde vtterly detest them, vnlesse I shoulde vnderstande their meaning to be otherwise.
Answer. But thou shouldst indeed understand it, if I should show unto thee that this were done by the commandment of God. But if so be also I should declare unto thee, by the institution of God, that by the foreskin were signified our natural filthinesses and their fruits, which ⟨image 62⟩that same son of GOD to be borne should take away, by the shedding forth of his blood, thou wouldest a great deal the rather content thy self. Notwithstā ding thou wouldest desire being taught now the self same thing, that the same might be showed unto thee after a more fit manner, and with less danger of the infant. Now if that same simple washing should be instituted in the place of that bloody cutting of the foreskin, thou wouldest sure prefer this condition before the other. And the same reason is there of those slain Sacrifices, which were both laboursome and costly. And concerning those same miraculous wonders, to wit, of Manna falling from Heaven, and the water flowing forth of the rock, these are to be rehearsed, in the number of those same figures which were once showed, & not amongst the Sacraments which are perpetual, against which our Sacraments are not to be set, but the trueth performed in Christ himself given unto us.