A14463:1941
A14463:1941
A Christian instruction, containing the law and the Gospel Also a summary of the principal points of the Christian faith and religion, and of the abuses and errors contrary to the same. Done in certain dialogues in french, by M. Peter Viret, sometime minister of the Word of God at Nymes in Province. Translated by I.S. Seen and allowed according to the Queens Majesties injunctions.A Christian instruction, conteyning the law and the Gospell Also a summarie of the principall poyntes of the Christian fayth and religion, and of the abuses and errors contrary to the same. Done in certayne dialogues in french, by M. Peter Viret, sometime minister of the Word of God at Nymes in Prouince. Translated by I.S. Seene and allowed according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by Henry Bynneman? for Abraham Veale, 1573
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.
M. I do not well understand yet what thou meanest herein.
M. I doe not well vnderstand yet what thou meanest herein.
P. Seeing that Jesus Christ hath ordained one several sign to signify his body, and an other several sign to signify his blood, and that it hath pleased him so to discern them the one from the other, the better to represent to us how his blood was separated from his body for us, in such sort as his life and soul was separated likewise, it should also follow, that his body must be eaten a part, as we there eat the bread, and there drink the blood a part as we there drink the wine.
P. Seing that Iesus Christe hath ordeyned one seuerall signe to signifie his body, and an other seuerall signe to signifie his bloud, and that it hath pleased him so to discerne them the one from the other, ye better to represent to vs how his bloud was separated from his body for vs, in such sorte as his life and soule was separated likewise, it should also followe, that his body must be eatē a parte, as we there eate the breade, and there drink the bloud a parte as we there drinke ye wine.
M. If it were so, we should not have in the Supper the living body of Christ, but dead and other than he is reigning in heaven, where his blood is not separated from his body.
M. If it were so, we shoulde not haue in the Supper the liuing body of Christ, but dead and other thā he is raigning in heauen, where his bloud is not separated frō his body.
P. Thou sayest truth. But thou hast yet to note, that if the body and blood of Jesus Christ were given us to nourish and maintain us in this corporal life, as is bread and wine, we should then also eat the body and drink the blood of Christ corporally, as we do eat and drink the corporal bread and wine. But forasmuch as they are given us for ⟨p. 323⟩spiritual nurture, we must eat and drink them spiritually.
P. Thou sayest truth. But thou hast yet to note, that if the body and bloud of Iesus Christ were giuen vs to nourish and mainteyne vs in this corporall life, as is bread and wine, we shoulde then also eate the body and drinke the bloude of Christe corporally, as we doe eate and drinke the corporall breade and wine. But forsomuche as they are giuen vs for ⟨p. 323⟩spirituall nouriture, we must eate and drinke them spiritually.
M. What doest thou call to eat and drink spiritually?
M. What doest thou call to eate and drinke spiritually?
Peter. To speak properly, to eat and drink is understood of the body and of the bodily meat and drink, but when we speak of spiritual things, we take those words for a figure, by the which we declare the spiritual things by the bodily things, because of the similitude and agreement that they have together.
Peter. To speake properly, to eate and drinke is vnderstoode of the body and of the bodily meate and drinke, but when we speake of spirituall thinges, we take those wordes for a figure, by the whiche we declare the spirituall thinges by the bodily thinges, bycause of the similitude and agremente that they haue togither.
M. Why is that done?
P. To the end that by the similitude and comparison of corporal things, we mought the better understand the spiritual things.
P. To the ende that by the similitude and comparison of corporall thinges, we moughte the better vnderstande the spirituall things.
M. Declare this to me yet somewhat more plainly.
M. DEclare this to me yet somewhat more plainely.
Peter. Thou mayest well understand that the soul and the Spirit do neither eat nor drink corporally and materially as doth the body.
Peter. Thou mayest well vnderstande that the soule and the Spirite do neyther eate nor drinke corporally and materially as dothe the bodye.
Matthew. I do well understand at the least, that they have ⟨p. 308⟩neither mouth, nor teeth, nor stomachs, nor bellies corporal whereby they may do the same.
Mathevve. I doe well vnderstande at the leaste, that they haue ⟨p. 308⟩neither mouth, nor téeth, nor stomackes, nor bellies corporall whereby they may do ye same.
P. And therefore it must needs be that if the soul and the spirit do eat and drink, they eat and drink in an other sort than doth the body, the which is proper and agreeable to their nature.
P. And therefore it must néeds be that if the soule and the spirite do eate and drinke, they eate and drinke in an other sorte than doth the body, the whiche is proper and agreable to their nature.
M. There is reason in that which thou sayest.
M. There is reason in that whiche thou sayest.
P. And on the other side thou mayest well know also, that the flesh of Jesus Christ is neither eaten nor chewed, neither is swallowed down into the stomach and belly, neither is it digested, as is the corporal and material meat.
P. And on the other side thou mayest well knowe also, that the flesh of Iesus Christ is neyther eaten nor chawed, neyther is swalowed downe into the stomacke and bellie, neyther is it digested, as is the corporall and materiall meate.
M. For what cause is it then that Jesus Christ hath used that manner of speech, saying, he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood,1 hath eternal life?
M. For what cause is it then that Iesus Christ hath vsed that manner of spéeche, saying, he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud,1 hath eternall life?