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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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6 The necessity, or rather the equity of this petition is manifold: First it teacheth us, that we ought wholly to depend upon Gods Providence, by whom we are nourished, maintained and preserved. Secondly, that we acknowledge him the giver of all good things both spiritual and temporal. Thirdly, that we may with quiet minds expect those things at his hands, which otherwise would hold us in a miserable care and perplexity.
6 The necessitie, or rather the aequitie of this petition is manifold: First it teacheth vs, that we ought wholly to depend vpon Gods Prouidence, by whome we are nourished, maintained and preserued. Secondlie, that wee acknowledge him the giuer of all good things both spirituall and temporall. Thirdlie, that we may with quiet minds expect those things at his handes, which otherwise would holde vs in a miserable care and perplexity.
7 For our merciful Father doth not disdain to receive our bodies into his protection and custody, that by these small things, he may exercise our faith, when as we look for all things at his hands, even the least crumb of bread, and drop of water, that we put into our mouths.
7 For our mercifull Father dooth not disdaine to receaue our bodies into his protection and custodie, that by these small thinges, hee may exercise our faith, when as wee looke for all thinges at his handes, euen the least crumb of bread, and drop of water, that we put into our mouthes.
I. The Marcionites and Manichaees therefore are out of their wits, who have endeavoured to defend that God hath no care of these our bodies, as though the same were unbeseeming his Majesty: and that our flesh or our bodies, were the work not of God, but of an evil beginning, that is, of the Devil, and therefore that it became not the good God to sustain them, seeing they are evil. II. They are mad also who think, that all things are disposed by the tossing of Fortune. And the Epicures also, together with those who hold that God hath no care or respect unto the things that are done under the or be of the Moon. III Witches and Sorcerers in like sort are here condemned, and all those, who either openly, or by any secret trade, seek their maintenance in this life of the Devil, and not of God.