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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.
75. Question.
But what if I should except that all these things signify nothing else but the only efficacy or virtue of Christ to come?
But what if I shoulde except that all these things signifie nothing else but the onely efficacie or vertue of Christ to come?
Answer. Yea, but his efficacy dependeth as well of those things which Christ should suffer for our cause, as of Christ himself. Why therefore shouldest thou now be more offended, when I say that the very humane nature of Christ it self, albeit then it were not, notwithstanding that it was truly and indeed given unto the Fathers in the Sacraments and sealed up in them: then that the Fathers were justified and in very deed sanctified in spirit, by the righteousness of his flesh which yet was not borne. For this is the whole sum of the benefits of Christ. Furthermore when thou thinkest that the fathers were made partakers of those fruits which flow unto us out of the flesh of Christ (or out of Christ according ⟨image 66⟩to the flesh) shutting out that same partaking of Christ himself and of those things which he afterwards suffered for our sake, thou doest even as if reasoning of this same bodily life, thou wouldest have them too be nourished with meat, who notwithstanding do not in any sort receive the substance of meats.