A10233:152
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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3 Thirdly the analogy, proportion and agreement, which is between the signs, and the things signified, the Lord no doubt choosing such elements as might most aptly and fitly express the things signified and sealed by the same: for otherwise, if we had had bare signs alone, without holy things signified in and by the same, as our faith had no whit at all been provided for, because it being spiritual and inward, is not, nor cannot be nourished with outward and corporal things, so we might easily have been carried away ⟨p. 155⟩into idolatry or superstition at the least, whilst we directed our imagination (for I dare not call it faith) to visible and external elements, or doted in our fantasy and understanding upon creatures, which what hurt it might have done, though we feel not by our own experience (God be thanked therefore) yet we may behold and see the same in the lamentable and pitiful spectacle of many blind and superstitious ones in the world.
3 Thirdlie the analogie, proportion and agreement, which is betweene the signes, and the things signified, the Lord no doubt choosing such elementes as might most aptlie and fitlie expresse the things signified and sealed by the same: for otherwise, if we had had bare signes alone, without holie things signified in and by the same, as our faith had no whit at all beene prouided for, because it being spirituall and inward, is not, nor cannot be nourished with outward and corporall thinges, so wee might easilie haue beene carried away ⟨p. 155⟩into idolatrie or superstition at the least, whilest we directed our imagination (for I dare not call it faith) to visible and externall elements, or doted in our fantasie and vnderstanding vppon creatures, which what hurt it might haue doone, though wee feele not by our owne experience (God be thanked therefore) yet wee may behold and see the same in the lamentable and pitifull spectacle of manie blind and superstitious ones in the world.