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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.
Question. But what doest thou think concerning the rites themselves?
Question. But what doest thou thinke concerning the rites themselues?
Answer. I think that we ought to stand too the word of God.
Answeare. I thinke that we ought to stand too the woord of God.
Question. But it seemeth that the word of God requireth a thorough dipping into the water.
Question. But it seemeth that the woorde of God requireth a thorow dipping into the water.
Answer. I grant that the name it self of baptism being taken in the precise and straight signification doth declare no less: neither is it any marvel that this was observed in those of the years of discretion, especially in Jewry and those same hot countries in which it might be done without any danger of health. But I think that we must look unto the very end of baptism it self, which it is plain also that we keep in the simple sprinkling of water upon the infants wet therewith, like as sprinkling was sufficient in those same purifications of the law (in which