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Propositions and principles of divinity propounded and disputed in the university of GenevaPropositions and principles of diuinitie propounded and disputed in the vniuersitie of Geneua
Propositions and principles of divinity propounded and disputed in the university of Geneva, by certain students of divinity there, under M. Theod. Beza, and M. Anthony Faius ... Wherein is contained a methodical summary, or epitome of the common places of divinity. Translated out of Latin into English, to the end that the causes, both of the present dangers of that Church, and also of the troubles of those that are hardly dealt with else-where, may appear in the English tongue.Propositions and principles of diuinitie propounded and disputed in the vniuersitie of Geneua, by certaine students of diuinitie there, vnder M. Theod. Beza, and M. Anthonie Faius ... Wherein is contained a methodicall summarie, or epitome of the common places of diuinitie. Translated out of Latine into English, to the end that the causes, both of the present dangers of that Church, and also of the troubles of those that are hardlie dealt vvith els-vvhere, may appeare in the English tongue.
Edinburgh: printed by Robert Waldegrave, 1591Edinburgh: printed by Robert Waldegraue, 1591
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1 IT is certain, that as the Lord in times past raised up godly Priests, levites, and prophets, which might interpret his law against false teachers, and apply the same unto their time: So in the Christian Church, after the labours of the Apostles and the Evangelists, he endued with a certain greater measure of his Spirit, those, whom he thought good; by whose writings, posterities might be instructed, not that they should add or detract any thing from the word of GOD, or change any syllable therein: But that they should be the true interpreters of the same, and that there should be an use, both of their sound disputations against heretics, and also of their holy and learned, both exhortations and consolations: to over-pass here, that the story of the ancient Church is to be known out of their writings.
1 IT is certaine, that as the Lorde in times past raised vp godly Priests, leuits, and prophets, which might interpret his law against false teachers, and apply the same vnto their time: So in the Christian Churche, after the labours of the Apostles and the Euangelistes, hee indued with a certaine greater measure of his Spirit, those, whome he thought good; by whose writings, posterities might be instructed, not that they should adde or detract any thing from the worde of GOD, or change any syllable therein: But that they should bee the true interpretours of the same, and that there should bee an vse, both of their sound disputations against heretickes, and also of their holie and learned, both exhortations and consolations: to ouer-passe heere, that the storie of the ancient Church is to be knowen out of their writings.
2 But here men do diversly offend; for both they, are greatly to be reproved, who do neglect so great gifts of God; and they on the other side, do grievously offend, who receive the writings of the Fathers without exception, for the rule of faith; and those also, who will have the government of the church without respect of time, place, and person, to be framed according to the prescription of the ancients: Neither are they to be heard, who hold, that the Fathers are to be accounted, because they are ancient.