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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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contrary
vnto the mynde of paul / set vp ceremonies in the new
testamente / partely borowynge them of Moses and partely
imageninge like / as ye now se / and called them sacramentes:
that is to saye / sygnes (as
yt ys playne in the storyes) the sacrament of holy
water / of holy
fyre / holy bred / holy salt and so forth. And they
gaue them significacions
. As holy water signifyed the sprinclinge of
christes bloude for our redempcyon. Which sacrament or sygne
(though yt seme superfluous / in as moch as the sacrament of
christes body and bloud signifieth the same dayly) yet as longe
as the significacion
bode / it hurted not. And the kyssynge of the pax was
sett vpp to
signifie / that the peace of christ shuld be euer
amonge vs one to
loue an other after hys ensample as the word yt selfe
well declareth. For pax ys as moch to saye as peace.
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Matt. 26.26–28, Mark
14.22–24, Luke 22.19–20, 1Cor. 11.23— 26:
26/29–30, 27/5–6, 70/27–28, 73/8–10
JOHN: 13.15: 70/31
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And as for confirmacion / it is no doute / but that
it came this wise
vp and that thys was the vse / which the word it
selfe well declareth. We reade in the stories / that they wich
were conuerted vnto the faith of the age of discrecion / were
ful taught in the law of god (as right is) and in the fayth of
oure sauiour Iesus / yer they were baptised /
and vppon the profession or promisinge to kepe that
law and fayth / were baptised. And then for the socure and helpe
of younge childern / baptised before the age of discrecion / to
know the law of
god and faith of christe / was confirmacion
institute that they shuld not be all waye ignoraunt and
faithlesse / but be taught the professyon of theyr baptim. And
thys / no doute / was the maner / as we maye wel gather by
probable coniectures and euident tokens. When the childern were
of
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