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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.
157. Question.
But the child which is baptised, understandeth none of these things.
But the child which is baptised, vnderstandeth none of these thinges.
Answer. I grant it, but he shall understand it in his time: because, as I said before, the virtue of these words through out the whole life of them, that are baptized, showeth his power in all Tentations, so that we being at the ⟨image 112⟩very point of death may and ought even with this only buckler beat back all those later temptations of Satan, Avaunt Satan for when I was yet deaf I heard one that said unto me, in the name and by the commandment of my Saviour, I baptise thee N. in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the holy Ghost. This same baptism is unto me a sure pledge that I am cleansed from all my sins, and endued with the righteousness of my Christ, together with whom I dying and being buried, I have now begun to arise again in my mind and shall fully at the length also rise again in my flesh to everlasting life.
Answeare. I graunte it, but hee shall vnderstande it in his tyme: because, as I sayd before, the vertue of these wordes through out the whole lyfe of them, that are baptized, sheweth his power in all Tentations, so that we being at the