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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.
221. Question.
Wilt thou also rehearse the eight?
Answer. If that same bread be properly the body of Christ, then it should cease to be bread, forasmuch as these two things are wholly in kind unlike. But if it cease to be bread, now the sacrament shall not consist of these two things one earthly and the other heavenly, unless ⟨image 143⟩thou call the earthly shadows, that is to say, accidences without a subject. But these being overthrown, the proportion of substances shall be also overthrown, & therefore the whole reason of a sacrament shall be overthrown. It must needs be therefore, that that bread be called the body of Christ figuratively. But now I come to the other rank of arguments, to wit, drawn from those words which go before and follow those former, This is my body, and from the circumstances and conferences of other places of the Scripture.
Answeare. If that same bread be properly the bodie of Christe, then it shoulde sease to bee bread, forasmuch as these twoo thinges are wholly in kinde vnlike. But if it cease to be bread, now the sacrament shall not consist of these two thinges one earthly and the other heauenly, vnlesse ⟨image 143⟩