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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.
88. Question.
Admit that we have but only two such Sacraments, I demand of thee in the first place, what Baptism is.
Admyt that wee haue but onely two suche Sacramentes, I demaund of thee in the first place, what Baptisme is.
Answer. This word properly declareth dipping into the water, & by consequent washing away: of which sort many were instituted in the law, Hebr. 9. 10. to which were added afterwards the pharisaical washings, whereof mention is made in the 7. of Mark, vers 4. Now by the figure *Antonomasia it is taken for the Sacrament, by which we are ⟨image 77⟩are openly professed to Christ. But by translation it setteth forth the afflictions of the godly and some great and grievous calamities, yea and the cross it self, as it is taken. Luke. 12. 50. peradventure fetching the Metaphor from thence, for that in many places of the Psalms especially are understood by the name of waters and of gulfs, miseries, wherewith a man is as it were swallowed up. To be short, it is taken for the pouring forth of the gifts of the holy Ghost, as