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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.
12. Question.
But these which thou callest voluntary signs, or ordained by God, be they of the same kind?
But these which thou callest voluntarie signes, or ordeined by God, be they of the same kind?
Answer. No not so. For some are only for remembrances, that is, ordained and appointed for that use, that they might only be monuments of things past, as the xii. stones taken out of the bottom of Jordan, which might be a witness of the river dried up. Moreover others, are put for signs, that is, such as either ⟨image 33⟩set forth a thing present, or a thing to come: as the rainbow in the firmament being not only a sign of the covenant begun with Noah, but also as it were a certain pledge that neither now or ever hereafter there shall be any more drowning of the whole world. To conclude, others some are so ordained, that besides that they call somewhat passed, to our memory again, they witness also, that that thing for the signification whereof they are used, is truly and in deed given unto us, and they do as it were seal the promise thereof in us. So Christ breathing upon his Disciples, gave them the holy Ghost, inwardly in spiring, that which he signified by the outward breathing & therewithal giving it.