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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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15 The Analogy furthermore, of the signs and the things signified is manifest: For the element of water, used for the washing of the outward filthiness, doth most fitly represent that blood, which was shed, for the taking away of the sins of the world, and applied to purify us: Briefly, that either dipping into, or sprinkling of the water, though it be but done in a short space, doth yet clearly represent the first part of our regeneration; that is, the sealing of our inward and spiritual engrafting into Christ his death and burial; whereby our old man, together with all our sins, being by little and little brought to decay, is altogether buried. Last of all, in that he who is baptized, whether he be dipped under the water, or sprinkled ⟨p. 178⟩[…] ⟨p. 179⟩[…] ⟨p. 180⟩[…] ⟨p. 181⟩[…] ⟨p. 182⟩[…] ⟨p. 183⟩[…] ⟨p. 176⟩with the same, doth yet rise again: it layeth open, as it were before our eyes, the remission of our sins, and the rising again of our new man.
15 The Analogie furthermore, of the signes and the things signified is manifest: For the element of water, vsed for the washing of the outwarde filthines, doth most fitlie represent that blood, which was shead, for the taking away of the sinnes of the world, and applied to purifie vs: Briefelie, that either dipping into, or sprinckling of the water, though it bee but done in a short space, doth yet clearelie represent the first part of our regeneration; that is, the sealing of our inward and spirituall ingraffing into Christ his death and buriall; whereby our olde man, togeather with all our sinnes, being by little and little brought to decay, is altogeather buried. Last of all, in that hee who is baptized, whether hee bee dipt vnder the water, or sprinckled