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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
XXI.
This Metonymical or Sacramental ⟨p. 160⟩phrase is used every where in Scripture, where the holy Spirit speaketh of Sacraments. For we may not otherwise understand these places; as where it is said, that circumcision is the acovenant of God, & the paschal lamb is bthe Lords Passover in Egypt, and the c