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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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6 In the latter sense we define them to be a certain holy action, enjoined by God unto the Church: wherein, as GOD in a kind of agreeable proportion, between the signs and the things signified, offereth unto the senses of our body, by the hand of the Minister, the things that appertain unto our salvation in Christ: so doth he give unto our souls the heavenly things themselves, to the end that they should spiritually by faith, be more & more sealed in them.
6 In the latter sense we define them to be a certain holie action, enjoined by God vnto the Church: wherein, as GOD in a kinde of agreeable proportion, betweene the signes and the things signified, offereth vnto the senses of our bodie, by the hand of the Minister, the things that appertaine vnto our saluation in Christ: so dooth hee giue vnto our soules the heauenlie thinges themselues, to the end that they should spirituallie by faith, be more & more sealed in them.
7 By signs in this place, we understand not natural or miraculous, but voluntary signs: because they are ordained by the will of God, to be signs of his grace in Christ, which by nature they are not: neither are they signs only, but partly remembrances of things past, and partly seals of things present, and also to come.
7 By signes in this place, we vnderstand not natural or miraculous, but voluntarie signes: because they are ordained by the will of God, to be signes of his grace in Christ, which by nature they are not: neither are they signes onlie, but partlie remembraunces of things past, and partly seales of things present, and also to come.
8 But now, we will consider in order of the causes of the Sacraments. The efficient is GOD only, because that as it appertaineth to him alone to promise grace; so doth it also to add the seals thereof thereunto. Therefore also, there are neither any other Sacraments to be received into the Church, neither is the manner of the institution to be any wise violated.