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A brief rehearsal of the death resurrectio[n], [and] ascension of Christ gathered together out…A briefe rehersal of the death resurrectio[n], [and] ascension of Christ gathered together oute…
A brief rehearsal of the death resurrectio[n], [and] ascension of Christ gathered together out of the four evangelists and acts of the apostles by the most godly and great learned man Huldriche Zuinglius, written first in Latin, and now tra[n]slated into English, that such as understand not the Latin tongue should not want the use of so worthy and profitable a treatise. Perused and allowed according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.A briefe rehersal of the death resurrectio[n], [and] ascension of Christ gathered together oute of ye foure euangelistes and actes of the apostles by the most godly and great learned man Huldriche Zuinglius, written first in Latin, and now tra[n]slated into Englishe, that such as vnderstande not the Latin tongue should not wante the vse of so worthy and profitable a treatise. Perused and allowed according to the order appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Daye dwelling over Aldersgate beneath Saint Martins, 1561London: printed by Iohn Daye dwellinge ouer Aldersgate beneath Sainct Martynes, 1561
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Nothing is done here by chance, nothing is done rashly all things are foreseen and ordained by the providence of God, without beginning. All things are governed by his counsel and will. These things are therefore written by the Evangelist, that we might understand, that Christ was not compelled to die by violence or of necessity, but of his own free will and by the will of the father, and because that all the shadows of the old Testament vanished away in Christ, it is declared also that Christ is that Lamb which is prefigured in the old Testament, as Paul teacheth in the 1. Cor. 5. ca. But this word Pass over is taken divers ways, sometimes properly for that passing or slipping over of the Angel in Egypt, when as he slew the first begotten of the Egyptians, but spared the Israelites, upon whose doors the blood of the lamb was sprinkled, sometimes it is taken for the festival day it self, and sometimes for the lamb which is killed and that by denomination, as here when he sayeth to kill, to eat or prepare the Passover. So this word Passover is put for the Lamb, & again the Lamb is called the Passover,1 when as it was only but a memorial of the passing over. So the bread is called afterwards the body of Christ, when as it is but the token of the body, & circumcision is called the covenant,2 of the which covenant it was but the sign. We learn here the poverty of Christ, who not having where to put under his head, is compelled to prepare ⟨p. 25⟩his supper with his disciples in other folks houses after the manner of the poor.
NOthing is done here by chance, nothing is done rashly all things are foresene and ordained by the prouidence of God, without beginning. All thinges are gouerned by his counsell and will. These thinges are therfore writtē by the Euangelist, that we might vnderstand, that Christ was not compelled to die by violence or of necessitie, but of his own free will and by the wyll of the father, and bicause that all the shadowes of the old Testament vanished away in Christ, it is declared also that Christ is that Lambe which is prefigured in the old Testament, as Paule teacheth in the