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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.
XIX.
And yet we do not go from the very words of Christ, but desire to give them their natural sense and meaning.
And yet we do not goe from the verie words of Christ, but desire to giue them their naturall sense and meaning.
XX.
The very natural sense of the words of Christ, doth depend upon a Metonymy, or trope, whereby the name of the thing signified, that is the body, is attributed to the sign which is bread: and so for the cup and blood of Christ in like manner.
The verie naturall sense of the words of Christ, doth depend vpon a Metonymie, or trope, whereby the name of the thing signified, that is the bodie, is attributed to the signe which is bread: and so for the cup and bloud of Christ in like maner.