A10170:439
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.
98. Question
But too what end are we said too die, to be buried, and too rise again into the death, burial and resurrection of Christ?
But too what ende are wee sayde too die, to bee buryed, and too rise againe into the death, buriall and resurrection of Christ?
Answer. By that means the Apostle himself being the Author. Rom. 6. 4. &c. is declared both the proportion and effect of those same Sacramental rites. For so we are taught to place our whole faith in Christ alone, who died, was buried & rose again from death too everlasting life for us, inasmuch as he is our brother. The dipping therefore into water setteth before our eyes that same bottom less gulf of Gods judgement, by which for our sins laid upon him, Christ is as it were swallowed up. The remaining in the water, in what sort or how short soever it be, doth as it were set him before our eyes to be looked upon, holden in his Grave as it were, by the chains of death. But coming out of the water, is as it were a lively picture of his victory, whereby it came to pass that being dead he overcame death, and being buried, he ⟨image 80⟩overcame corruption, that we our selves also being engrafted into him by faith, (of which engrafting also Baptism is a pledge) we are become partakers of the same power, whereby he performed all those things first in himself.