A10170:447
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.
101. Question.
I would also know somewhat of those correspondent figures of baptism, And first what that word [Greek or Hebrew] meaneth.
I woulde also knowe somewhat of those correspondent figures of baptisme, And first what that word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 meaneth.
Answer. A [Greek or Hebrew] are called figures correspō dent to figures, the name of figures being largely taken, whereby is declared that some Sacrament is not otherwise properly so called (that is an holy action commanded to the whole Church as a certain ordinary thing, which is the ⟨image 82⟩seal of the promise of everlasting life) but some certain thing that God hath simply appointed also for this end, that he might signify some other thing to be fulfilled in the new Testament. So in that Noah was saved out of the waters, and by the waters themselves in the Ark, it was a Type or figure of Baptism, whereby the Church, shut up as it were in Christ, is saved. So Israel passing through the Sea, and coming safe through a Cloud from Heaven shrouding them, it represented the Mystery of the same Baptism.