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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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XXIII.
And thus speaketh Augustine also, lest any think of this, as of some new invention. If Sacraments had not a certain similitude of those things, of which they be Sacraments, asurely they should be no Sacraments: and by reason of this likeness, they have often the names of the things, (which are signified by them.) Therefore as the Sacrament of the body of Christ, is after a certain manner, the body of Christ; the Sacrament of the blood of Christ, the blood of Christ: so the Sacrament of faith is faith.
And thus speaketh Augustine also, lest any thinke of this, as of some new inuētiō. If Sacraments had not a certaine similitude of those things, of which they be Sacramēts, asurely they should be no Sacraments: and by reason of this likenesse, they haue often the names of the things, (which are signified by them.) Therfore as the Sacrament of the body of Christ, is after a certaine manner, the body of Christ; the Sacrament of the bloud of Christ, the bloud of Christ: so the Sacrament of faith is faith.
- aEpist. 23. ad Bonifac.
Whereas they object that it is not like that when Christ would minister unto his Apostles, a special comfort in adversity, that then he should speak darkly and ⟨p. 162⟩