A10233:144
Two very learned sermons of M. Beza, together with a short sum of the…Two very lerned sermons of M. Beza, togither with a short sum of the…
Two very learned sermons of M. Beza, together with a short sum of the sacrament of the Lords Supper: Whereunto is added a treatise of the substance of the Lords Supper, wherein is briefly and soundly discussed the p[r]incipall points in controversy, concerning that question. By T.W.Two very lerned sermons of M. Beza, togither with a short sum of the sacrament of the Lordes Supper: Wherevnto is added a treatise of the substance of the Lords Supper, wherin is breflie and soundlie discussed the p[r]incipall points in controuersie, concerning that question. By T.W.
London: printed by Robert Walde-grave for T. Man, 1588London: printed by Robert Walde-graue for T. Man, 1588
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The substance of the Lords supper, shortly and soundly set forth, for the instruction and comfort of all true christian Readers.
The substance of the Lords supper, shortlie and soundlie sette forth, for the instruction and comfort of all true christian Readers.
TO clear, yea, to void all the controversies, that from time to time have crept into the church of Christ, concerning the matter of the lords supper, these three circumstances are meet especially to be considered.
TO cleare, yea, to void al the controuersies, that frō time to time haue crept into the church of Christ, concerning the matter of the lords supper, these three circumstances are meete especially to bee considered.
11 First, who ordained it, to wit, Jesus Christ our lord and saviour, which tendeth to two especial ends: first, to prove his eternal deity or godhead, because it belongeth to God alone, and none other, to institute and ordain holy signs and Sacraments in his church, whereof also it should seem there is very great and good reason, both in as much as the Church it self is,2 the house of the living God, and his peculiar inheritance: and also because it belongeth to him alone, to give that virtue & strength unto elements of common and unclean by sin, to become purified and holy through grace: secondly, it seemeth to ⟨p. 151⟩teach us, to have a more reverent regard to come to the sound knowledge and religious use thereof, not only because he being God, and the ordainer thereof, hath all power in his own hands, to punish the profane contemners and abusers of the same, but also because he, of whom we have that that we have, not only as in consideration of our name, Christian, but also as in respect of all other both spiritual and bodily graces, hath instituted the same for his own glory and our good.