B00150:514
A short treatise
A short treatise: containing all the principal grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for householders..A short treatise: containing all the principall grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for housholders..
London: printed for William Welby, 1617
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.
Q. What is the outward sign?
Q. What is the outward signe?
Expos. 4. Besides that bread and wine are most usual, fit, and necessary nourishments, Psal. 104. 15. they do of all other best serve to express the body and blood of Christ, Jo. 6. 33. Leavened or unleavened bread are of free use, Act. 20. 7. Matth. 26. 17. 26. but it is expedient, that it be bread that hath substance in it. The use of the wafer cake is justly blamed as superstitious by our Church. And because the Sacrament is a spiritual feast, therefore the finest bread, and pure wine, is of most laudable use. Out of niggardliness to mix water with wine, savoureth of an ill mind,