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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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7 For it is no less repugnant unto his nature, that there should be many omnipotents, then that there should be many Gods.
7 For it is no lesse repugnant vnto his nature, that there should be many omnipotents, then that there should be many Gods.
Whence it is, that Christian Religion, doeth not acknowledge in God distinct into three persons, three omnipotents, but one omnipotent.
Now concerning the humane nature of Christ, although it be united unto the divine, in the person of the Son, who is but one, yet as it is not therefore made God, so is it not properly made omnipotent: but it retained even it own infirmities, before it was glorified, wherein it might suffer and dye for us, and now being glorified, although it be free from all infirmities and glorious; yet is it not in it self made omnipotent.
Now concerning the humane nature of Christ, although it be vnited vnto the deuine, in the person of the Sonne, who is but one, yet as it is not therefore made God, so is it not properlie made omnipotent: but it retained even it own infirmities, before it was glorified, wherein it might suffer and dye for vs, and now being glorified, although it be free from all infirmities and glorious; yet is it not in it selfe made omnipotent.