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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.
177. Question.
But what is the proportion and the analogy of these signs with the things signified?
But what is the proportion and the analogie of these signes with the thinges signified?
Answer. This analogy or proportion is manifest in it self. For seeing that bread and wine is most fit above other meats, for the nourishing of our bodies, they do most fitly set forth him unto us in whom only everlasting life resteth. But the breaking of bread and the pouring forth of wine, doeth as it were set before our eyes those infinite torments that the Lord suffered for our sakes, that we might in a manner look upon him with our very eyes hanging bloody upon the Cross, and instilling into us out of his pierced side everlasting life. Hitherto belongeth that same saying. De consec dist. 2. When the offering is taken, whiles the blood is poured out of the cup into the mouths of the faithful, what other thing is set forth than the offering up of the Lords body upon the cross, and the pouring forth of his blood from his side? Finally the eating and drinking doeth so expressly ⟨image 122⟩and in a manner so lively declare as it were our transformation into Christ him self, and his insinuation again into us, whereby he him self liveth in us, and we again in him, that nothing can be more evident. For what can be more nearly joined unto us, then that which we eat and drink, as that which is transformed & changed into our selves?