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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.
99. Question.
But yet that same old man, to wit, corruption was not in him: neither the fruits thereof, that is to say, sins.
But yet that same old man, to wit, corruption was not in him: neyther the fruits therof, that is to say, sinnes.
Answer. In very deed none of both these were in him, because he was void of all vice, & most holy even from the very moment of his conception. For he came to take away sin. Yet notwithstanding he had both those things upon him, taking mortality & all infirmities brought into our nature through sin, except that sin it self, and to be short the punishment laid upon him, whereby we are reconciled. Now these rites do teach that all these things are communicated unto us in this Sacrament, our corruption dying in us, being planted as it were into the death of Christ himself, and our sins also dying with him: ⟨image 81⟩that same stay answering Christs burial which is between the dipping in and the coming out, lively painteth out unto us the proceeding of the power and benefit of Christs death by little & little declaring it self in us. Finally, there followeth the coming out of the water again, signifying our new state and condition, the first being abolished, and answering to the resurrection of Christ: who as he rose again into everlasting life, death and mortality being overcome and swallowed up in the very grave, so at the length he will work the self same things in us, whereof we have now received the earnest and pledge.