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A book of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set forth the chief points…A booke of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set foorth the cheef points…
A book of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set forth the chief points of the Christian religion ... A work right necessary and profitable for all such as shall have to deal with the captious quarrellings of the wrangling adversaries of Gods truth. Written in Latin by the learned clerk Theodore Beza Vezelius, and newly translated into English by Arthur Golding.A booke of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set foorth the cheef points of the Christian religion ... A worke right necessary and profitable for all such as shal haue to deale vvith the capious quarelinges of the vvrangling aduersaries of Gods truthe. Written in Latin by the lerned clerke Theodore Beza Vezelius, and newly translated into English by Arthur Golding.
London: printed by William How for Abraham Veale, 1574
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A book of christen questions and answers.A booke of christen questions and aunswers.
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.
Quest. Yet it may be, that they which pray unto Angels and Saints deceased cannot away with the making o• any Images. Again ye should have made a distinction between such a• pray to the true and blessed Angels or to the souls of them that were godly and holy men in deed: and such a• worship counterfeit Angels, that is to say fiends, or which worshypp• such manner of Gods as although they were Gods, yet should they (even by their own confession) be bu• wicked Goddes.
Quest. Yet it may bee, that they whic• praye vnto Angels and Sainctes deceased cannot awaye with the makinge o• any Images. Ageyne yee shoulde haue made a distinction betwene suche a• pray to the trew and blessed Angelles or to the soules of them that were godlye and holy men in deede: and suche a• worshippe counterfet Aungelles, that is to saye feendes, or whiche worshypp• suche maner of Goddes as although• they were Goddes, yet shoulde they (euen by their owne confession) be bu• wicked Goddes.
Answer ⟨p. 18⟩I grant, not only that some sin•es1 are more heinous than others: •ut also that such as are guilty of one •elfe same sin, are not always a like guilty. Nevertheless, he that sinneth he greevouslyer, dischargeth not him that sinned less heinously, out of the umber of offenders. And therefore et us suffer all this gear to slip, whereof there is no question betwixt us.