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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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14 Now, how they are able to work in the hearts of men, and to stir up their thoughts, that is; whether they always do the same, by the means of some thing laid before man, or without any object, we think it to be a curious question, and it may be such, as men cannot dissolve. But our part is, that we be very careful to enarme our selves against these temptations, with all our might, by continual prayers.
14 Nowe, howe they are able to worke in the hearts of men, and to sturre vp their thoughts, that is; whether they alwaies do the same, by the meanes of some thing laied before man, or without anie object, wee thinke it to be a curious question, and it may be such, as men cannot dissolue. But our part is, that wee bee very carefull to enarme our selues against these temptations, with all our might, by continuall praiers.
15 But we affirm out of the word of God, that the devils are dispersed through all parts of the world, both above and beneath, doing all the evil they can, even until, that Satan and his Angels, together with all cursed reprobates be cast into hell, there to be tormented with eternal fire.
15 But we affirme out of the word of God, that the deuils are dispersed through all parts of the worlde, both aboue and beneath, doing all the euill they can, euen vntill, that Sathan and his Angels, togeather with all cursed reprobates be cast into hel, there to be tormented with eternall fire.
We do therefore condemn the MANICHEES, and the PRISCILLIANISTS, who defended that the Devils were evil by nature, and created such at the first, by a certain evil God: the SADDUCEES also, who together with that HERMES TRISMEGISTUS utterly denied that there were any angels: And ORIGEN likewise, who with PLATO affirmed, that those spiritual minds, as often as they offended, were fallen and thrust into bodies: APELLES the heretic also, who said, that the bodies which the Angels took upon them, were never created: and LACTANTIVS FIRMIANVS, who dreamed that Angels were not presently at the beginning of the world, appointed to guide and protect man: In sum, we condemn all those, who either make them coeternal with God, or attribute unto them, the work of the Creation, as did SIMON MAGUS, CERINTHVS, SATVRNINIVS, and CARPOCRATES.