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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.
86. Question.
I would therefore thou shouldest set forth unto me what the use is of these same forms of speech concerning Sacraments so expounded of thee.
I would therefore thou shouldest set foorth vnto me what the vse is of these same fourmes of speeche concerning Sacraments so expounded of thee.
Answer. We are by this means taught, that we attribute neither less nor more to the Sacraments, then is meet. Now they attribute less unto them, than is meet, who will have them only to be certain ⟨image 75⟩bare remembrances, shutting out a doors both the giving & receiving of the thing it self: the which opinion is herein taken away, because that the name of the sign is attributed to the thing signified, or the name of the effect it self to the sign it self, and again the name of the sign to the thing it self signified or too the effect thereof, as we have showed by those examples alleged. They also attribute much less then these to the Sacraments, who will only have them to be badges of outward profession: which opinion is altogether ungodly, and by the same reason is overthrown. Now we are taught again by these proper kind of speeches to attribute no more unto the Sacraments then is meet, & to shun that miserable bondage (as Saint Augustine speaketh more then once) whereby it is brought to pass, that the signs are taken for the things signified in his third Book of Christian doctrine. Chap. 5. and 7.