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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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Section 12: PRINCIPLES CONCERNING THE CREATION OF ALL THINGS, AND THEIR DIVISION. XII.
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9 And although it doth mar that, which otherwise is good in it self; yet is it by accident, the cause of good: That the degrees of things created may appear, which have their state, according as they have the greater, or less good in them. So unto the good of all things in general, Evil seemed to be in some sort necessary. And so AUGUSTINE saith; that God was the Author of good, and the ordainer of evil.
9 And although it doth marre that, which otherwise is good in it selfe; yet is it by accident, the cause of good: That the degrees of thinges created may appeare, which haue their state, according as they haue the greater, or lesse good in them. So vnto the good of all things in generall, Euill seemed to bee in some sort necessary. And so AVGVSTINE saith; that God was the Author of good, and the ordainer of euill.
10 Now, seeing that Evil is not any thing, that hath ⟨p. 26⟩being in nature: it followeth, that there can be no extreme sovereign Evil, save only as far as evil is altogether departed from that, which is the chief, and the sovereign good, which only is God alone, blessed and mighty above all.
10 Nowe, seeing that Euill is not any thing, that hath ⟨p. 26⟩being in nature: it followeth, that there can be no extream soueraigne Euill, saue onely as far as euill is altogether departed from that, which is the chiefe, and the soueraigne good, which onelie is God alone, blessed and mightie aboue all.