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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.
175. Question.
Whence doest thou gather this? For there are which refer this specially to the use of unleavened or sweet breads, which it is manifest was not very thick, and for the cutting whereof there needed no knife. Moreover they say also, that to break bread, by the Hebrew phrase signifieth as much as to distribute & plentifully to give bread.
Whence doest thou geather this? For there are which referre this specially to the vse of vnleauened or sweet breades, which it is manifest was not very thick, and for the cutting wherof there needed no knyfe. Moreouer they say also, that to breake bread, by the Hebrew phrase signifieth as much as to distribute & plentifully to giue bread.
Answer. Both the things that these men say, is very true, but this same last is by no means agreeable to those things which the Lord did & commanded to be done. For it is written, he brake, he gave, ⟨image 120⟩whereby there can not be (understood by the name of breaking, the distribution of bread. Now I grant that some other, and I add further, that householders were wont, yea, besides the use of unleavened bread, to break bread to the use of their household. But the Apostle manifestly showeth that this rite albeit it was common, yet it became sacramental, and that by reason of those same mentioned punishments which the lord suffered for our cause, for so much as he wrote, in steed of these words, that is given, that is broken.