A10170:933
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.
228. Question.
Show the seventh.
Shew the seuenth.
Answer. I gather out of other places of the scripture, that this is not a proper proposition. For as often things unlike are attributed to the same subject, it must needs be that some of these be taken properly, and some figuratively, which I set forth by examples thus: The Gospel is called the power of God to salvation. Rom. 1. 16. And in the beginning of the same chapter it is called the doctrine revealed from above, concerning the Son of God: which two forasmuch as they are diverse, it must needs be understood that one be spoken properly and the other figuratively. ⟨image 145⟩It is gathered not darkly out of John the 17. 3. that Faith is the knowledge of the true God & of Jesus Christ, whereby we are saved. The same is defined also to be the ground of those things which are not. Therefore one of these1 must needs be spoken properly, the other figuratively. John is not Elijah: