A10170:945
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.
230. Question.
Howe therefore doest thou think this place of Paul should be expounded?
Howe therefore doest thou thinke this place of Paule shoulde bee expounded?
Answer. First of all they are to be confuted, who take the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] which signifieth common for distribution, which the matter it self crieth out too be most absurd, forasmuch as bread and wine are substances, but distribution is an action: and Paul himself expounding that, useth a word that signifieth to participate, and the scope it self of the Apostle requireth that it declare a communion and not a distribution. Moreover it is wonder that they who allow no trope in the matter of the Sacrament, that they can in this place interpret the communicating of the body for the body communicated or distributed: that is, can confound the action with the effect. For neither in good sooth do they this well, because they refer this distribution to the word of breaking as though Paul ⟨image 148⟩had written, the bread which we distribute is the body communicated. For the word of breaking ought to be taken properly in this action as we have showed before, and it appeareth by the word he gave, which is added to the word he brake, in the narration of the Evangelist.
Answeare. First of all they are to be confuted, who take the Greeke word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 wc signifieth common for distribution, which the matter it selfe cryeth out too be most absurd, forasmuch as bread and wine are substances, but distribution is an action: and Paule himselfe expounding that, vseth a woorde that signifieth to participat, and the scope it selfe of the Apostle requireth that it declare a communion and not a distribution. Moreouer it is woonder that they who allowe no trope in the matter of the Sacramēt, that they can in this place interpret the cōmunicating of the body for the bodie communicated or distributed: that is, cā confound the action wt the effect. For neither in good sooth doe they this well, because they referre this distribution to the word of breaking as though Paule