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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.
96. Question.
What doest thou mean by the word [of putting on?
What doest thou meane by the worde [of putting on?
Answer. The Apostle so speaketh that he may show that that same power of the spirit is joined to baptism, whereby it is brought too pass that we are as it were knit & engrafted into Christ himself, so as we grow up into one body together with him which is the chiefest ⟨image 79⟩effect of baptism. Gal. 3. ver. 27. And certainly it seemeth unto me that this same manner of speaking sprang from hence, that those that were grown in years being to be baptised should put of their Garments that either they might put on others: or else being become new men, might take them again. To which Analogy or proportion the same Apostle hath respect. Col. 3. 9. Ephe. 4. 22.
Answeare. The Apostle so speaketh that he may shewe that that same power of the spirite is ioyned to baptisme, whereby it is brought too passe that wee are as it were knit & engraffed into Christ himselfe, so as we growe vp into one bodie together with him which is the chiefest