A14463:1944
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. 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.