A14463:2071
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 doest answer me very well, but if thou find it strange that a man should say, that they which are baptised ⟨p. 328⟩have put on Jesus Christ bodily as a garment, and are washed with his blood as with a material bath, why shouldest thou not find it as strange or more strange, that a man should say that the body and the blood of Jesus Christ are naturally and bodily eaten and drunken in the Supper, as are the bread & the wine which are the signs?
P. THow doest aunswere me verye well, but if thou find it strange that a man shuld say, that they which are baptised ⟨p. 328⟩haue put on Iesus Christ bodily as a garmente, and are washed with hys bloud as with a materiall bath, why shouldest thou not finde it as straunge or more straunge, that a man should say that the body and the bloud of Iesus Christe are naturally and bodily eaten and drunken in the Supper, as are the bread & the wine which are the signes?
M. Thou makest me to consider somewhat more deeply of this matter, than heretofore I did.
M. Thou makest me to consider somewhat more déepely of this matter, than heretofore I did.
P. It is a matter well to be thought on. For if that in Baptism we have no carnal communication with the body and blood of Jesus Christ, but only a spiritual, I see not what greater reason there is, to have rather in the Supper a carnal communication with him, than in Baptism, considering that the supper dependeth of baptism, and that it is as a more ample confirmation of the possession of the benefits of Jesus Christ, into the which we begin to enter by Baptism, and do continue by the Supper.