A14463:1942
A Christian instruction, containing the law and the Gospel Also a summary of the…A Christian instruction, conteyning the law and the Gospell Also a summarie of the…
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.
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⟩