A10170:886
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.
213. Question.
But it is hard that some thing should be said to be that, that only it signifieth to the mind.
But it is harde that some thing should be sayd to be that, that onely it signifyeth to the minde.
Answer. Nay rather as I have before taught, this same figurative kind of speaking is much more fit and express, ⟨image 139⟩and therefore also more usual, then if by proper speaking the signs should be said to signify some thing. For when they are said to be the thing it self that they signify, they altogether lead the mind of the beholder from the visible thing, to behold the invisible, and to lay hold upon it by Faith: which is the end of Sacraments.
Answeare. Naye rather as I haue before taught, this same figuratiue kinde of speaking is much more fitte and expresse, ⟨image 139⟩and therfore also more vsual, then if by proper speaking the signes shoulde be saide to signifie some thing. For when they are said to be the thing it selfe that they signifie, they altogether leade the mynde of the beholder from the visible thing, to behold the inuisible, and to lay holde vppon it by Fayth: which is the ende of Sacramentes.