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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.
100. Question.
Now I understand why baptism is called the washing of regeneration, why we are baptised for the forgiveness of sins, why the church is said to be cleansed by the washing of water, and to be short, why baptism is called of Augustine, the Sacrament of faith, and of Tertullian, the sealing of faith. But yet I understand not that ⟨image 81⟩which thou diddest add, concerning that mutual consociation and fellowship which we have in Christ.
Now I vnderstande why baptisme is called the washing of regeneration, why we are baptised for the forgiuenesse of sinnes, why the church is said to be cleansed by the washing of water, and to be short, why baptisme is called of Augustine, the Sacrament of faith, and of Tertullian, the sealing of faith. But yet I vnderstand not that ⟨image 81⟩which thou diddest adde, concerning that mutual consociation and felowship which we haue in Christ.
Answer. This also is an excellent effect of baptism, but yet a secondary effect, to wit, depending upon that same former. For that same form of baptizing into one and the self same Christ, doth both separate Christians from all other men, and also join them together, as it were one body under one and the self same head amongest themselves, as the Apostle speaketh.