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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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2 These rites did the Grecians call Mysteries, because they signified secrete and hidden matters, which can be known unto none, save unto those only, that are instructed, that is, unto the members of Gods Church. Now the Latins called them Sacraments, either because the word [Greek or Hebrew] was so interpreted, by the old translator of the new Testament, or because these rites, are the marks of the covenant between God and us, that he should be our God, and we his people, and that by a Metaphor borrowed from the Sacraments, that is, the solemn oaths, whereby soldiers bound themselves unto their Captains, and the Captains again unto them.
2 These rites did the Grecians call Mysteries, because they signified secrete and hidden matters, which can bee known vnto none, saue vnto those only, that are instructed, that is, vnto the members of Gods Church. Now the Latines called them Sacraments, either because the woorde 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 was so interpreted, by the olde translatour of the new Testament, or because these rites, are the markes of the couenaunt betweene God and vs, that hee should bee our God, and we his people, and that by a Metaphore borrowed from the Sacraments, that is, the solemne oathes, whereby souldiers bound themselues vnto their Captains, and the Captaines againe vnto them.
3 Now, although neither the word MYSTERY, nor SACRAMENT, be found in the Scripture, in that sense whereof we now speak: yet those godly fathers have added nothing unto the word, when as they used these terms for the expressing of the said rites.
3 Now, although neither the word MYSTERIE, nor SACRAMEMT, be found in the Scripture, in that sence whereof wee nowe speake: yet those godlie fathers haue added nothing vnto the worde, when as they vsed these tearmes for the expressing of the said rites.