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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 Of these things seeing we have spoken generally in the former disputation; we may now conveniently see what agreement and what difference there was, between the sacraments of both the covenants: that by this means it may be declared, that the same faith was under both of them.
2 Of these thinges seeing we haue spoken generallie in the former disputation; we may now conueniētly see what agreement and what difference there was, between the sacraments of both the couenaunts: that by this meanes it may bee declared, that the same faith was vnder both of them.
3 Unto this treatise we lay this most true ground, as a foundation: namely, that the covenant of God with his Church was always one and the same, which notwithstanding seemed to be divers, in regard of the divers circumstances of the dispensation, whence did arise the name and the difference of the old and the new Testament or covenant. Whereas therefore the things remained in the same in regard of substance, the signs were changed, according unto the circumstance of time. For the fathers (as the Apostle saith 1. COR. 10.) did eat of the same spiritual meat, and drink the same spiritual drink, out of the rock that followed them, the which rock was Christ.
3 Vnto this treatise we lay this most true ground, as a foundation: namelie, that the couenaunt of God with his Church was alwaies one and the same, which notwithstanding seemed to bee diuers, in regard of the diuers circumstances of the dispensation, whence did arise the name and the difference of the old and the new Testament or couenaunt. Whereas therefore the thinges remained in the same in regard of substance, the signes were chaunged, according vnto the circumstance of time. For the fathers (as the Apostle saith 1. COR. 10.) did eate of the same spirituall meat, and drinke the same spirituall drinke, out of the rock that followed them, the which rock was Christ.