A14463:2076
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.
Howe the corporal and carnal presence of the body and of the blood of Jesus Christ in the Supper greeth not with the true nature of them.
Hovve the corporall and carnall presence of the bodie and of the bloud of Iesus Christ in the Supper greeth not with the true nature of them.
M. Expound this same unto me somewhat more at large.
M. EXpounde this same vnto me somewhat more at large.
P. For the first, to what purpose is it to think, that the body of Jesus Christ is chewed and eaten and sent into the stomach, and from thence down into the belly, as is the bread which signifieth it in the Supper: and that his blood is also drunken as is the wine which is the sign? For be it that thou understand that the bread and the wine be converted into the substance of the body and blood, or else that the body ⟨p. 330⟩be eaten with the bread, and the blood drunken with the wine, yet is there still great absurdity, clean contrary to the nature of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
P. For the first, to what purpose is it to thinke, that the bodie of Iesus Chryst is chewed and eaten and sent into the stomacke, and frō thence downe into the bellie, as is the bread whiche signifieth it in the Supper: and that his bloud is also drunken as is the wyne which is the signe? For bée it that thou vnderstand that the breade and the wyne be conuerted into the substance of the bodie and bloud, or else that the bodie ⟨p. 330⟩