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Aphorisms of Christian religionAphorismes of Christian religion
Aphorisms of Christian religion: or, a very compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.Aphorismes of Christian religion: or, a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.
London: printed by Richard Field and Robert Dexter, 1596
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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.
XVI.
And the Supper of the Lord, hath the nature not only of a Sacrament, but also of a sacrifice, to wit, of thanks-giving, as ⟨p. 135⟩also the lamb, which had this place before it. For as that lamb was appointed to praise God for their delivery from the bondage of Pharaoh, so the holy Supper was ordained to apraise the Lord for our redemption from the power of the devil by the death of Christ.
And the Supper of the Lord, hath the nature not onely of a Sacrament, but also of a sacrifice, to wit, of thankes-giuing, as ⟨p. 135⟩also the lambe, which had this place before it. For as that lambe was appointed to prayse God for their deliuerie from the bōdage of Pharao, so the holy Supper was ordained to aprayse the Lord for our redemption from the power of the deuill by the death of Christ.