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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.
153. Question.
But here again, there is another thing that I would learn of thee, ⟨image 109⟩whether thou think that this form, I baptise thee in the name, or into the name of the Father, the Son, & the holy Ghost, be precisely and in so many words and syllables necessarily to be used. For thou art not ignorant that the Grecians say, let the servant of Christ be baptized into the name of the Father?
But heere againe, there is another thing that I woulde learne of thee, ⟨image 109⟩whether thou think that this fourme, I baptise thee in the name, or into the name of the Father, the Sonne, & the holy Ghost, bee precisely and in so many wordes and sillables necessarily to bee vsed. For thou art not ignoraunt that the Grecians say, let the seruaunt of Christ bee baptized into the name of the Father?
Answer. I say here omitting the quiddities and subtleties of the schoolmen, that two extremes are diligently to be shunned of us: to wit, that we neither fall into the impiety of Magicians, who feign a certain virtue in some certain words, forasmuch (as we have said before) as words in them selves, have nothing else but the force of signification: neither let us think likewise that it is lawful for us in the institution of the Lord (so as it is prescribed of him in certain words) to change any thing at all. And now in very deed concerning that first point, if there had been any power and virtue in the letters & sounds