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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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12 Further, if Christ were corporally present, he should be eaten without respect both of the bad, and the good, which is impossible. For to eat the flesh of Christ, is to believe in Christ, to be joined with Christ, and to be drawn from death unto life; which can by no means agree unto the wicked.
12 Further, if Christ were corporally present, he should be eaten without respect both of the badde, and the good, which is impossible. For to eat the flesh of Christ, is to beleeue in Christ, to be joyned with Christ, and to be drawen from death vnto life; which can by no meanes agree vnto the wicked.
13 For they, as AUGUSTINE saith, do only receive the bread of the Lord, but not the bread which is the Lord: which bread, is also unto them, not a sign of Christs body, but merely bread: even as the Sacrifice of the wicked, are by the Prophet HOSEA, not called sacrifice, but only flesh. Yet doth GOD justly punish in them, the contempt of his grace offered.
13 For they, as AVGVSTINE saith, do onely receiue the bread of the Lorde, but not the bread which is the Lorde: which bread, is also vnto them, not a sign of Christs bodie, but meerely bread: euen as the Sacrifice of the wicked, are by the Prophet HOSEAH, not called sacrifice, but only flesh. Yet doth GOD justlie punish in them, the contempt of his grace offered.
14 Again, seeing the question in this point, is only touching the soul, and the feeding thereof, to offer a corporal thing thereunto, is to be ignorant of the nature of things, and to mingle heavenly and earthly things together: seeing that eating of Christs body with the mouth, (if it could be possibly done) could not reach unto the soul, but only unto the body. And as the blood of Christ, doth not wash them that are corporally dipped thereunto, (the