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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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3 First, in that both of them do take away the force & nature of a Sacrament, which consisteth in this, that two ⟨p. 190⟩things should be in them; namely, earthly, elementary, and signifying; then heavenly, invisible, and signified: both which are severally considered, not as they are something absolutely and simply existing of their own nature, but as there is a mutual comparison and reference between them, whereby the signs do represent the things signified are represented.
3 First, in that both of them doe take away the force & nature of a Sacrament, which consisteth in this, that two ⟨p. 190⟩thinges should bee in them; namely, earthly, elementarie, and signifiyng; then heauenly, inuisible, and signified: both which are seuerallie considered, not as they are something absolutely and simply existing of their own nature, but as there is a mutuall comparison and referrence between them, whereby the signes do represent the things signified are represented.
4 Next, Transubstantiation maketh that the thing is not that, which it is, and that it is that, which it is not: but Consubstantiation maketh that two things indeed, are become one.
5 Thirdly, this doctrine doth include contrarieties: for it affirmeth, that the same body is received both naturally and supernaturally; whereas the truth doth teach, that the signs are naturally, and the things signified supernaturally participated.