Although circumcision be called Gods couenant, Gene. 17. vers. 10. yet was it not the couenant indeede, but a signe or feale of Gods couenant▪ made to Abraham and to his seede af∣ter him, Gen. 17. ver. 7. It was called the couenant, because it signified the couenant, and had the promise of grace annexed to it, as all sacraments haue. And as circumcision was called Gods couenant, and yet but a signe or sacrament thereof; e∣uen so in the Lords supper, the bread is called his bodie, albe∣it it be but a signe and sacrament of the same. For which pur∣pose S. Austen in his epistle to Bonifacius, hath a very fine saying, well worthie to be ingrauen in golden letters. His ex∣presse words be these. For if sacraments had not a certaine re∣semblance, of those things whereof they be sacraments; they could be no sacraments at all. By reason of the similitude or signification, they oftentimes take the names of the thinges themselues: as therfore in a certain maner, the sacrament of the body of Christ is Christs body; and the sacrament of the blood of Christ is Christs blood; euen so the sacrament of faith is also faith.
The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.
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- The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.
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- Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.
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- 1596.
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"The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07919.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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An obseruation.