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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 These faculties we hold to be two, the understanding, (which is also called the mind) and the will, or as sometimes they are called in the holy Scriptures, the spirit and the soul taken in a more narrow signification.
6 These faculties we holde to bee two, the vnderstanding, (which is also called the minde) and the will, or as sometimes they are called in the holie Scriptures, the spirite and the soule taken in a more narrow signification.
7 This Image considered, these two faculties is expressed of PAUL, by the names of righteousness and true holiness, whereby he declareth the agreement which it had with the pattern, according unto which it was created: A wonderful light being poured into the faculty of understanding, whereby it was endued with a most clear knowledge (and such as was obscured by no darkness,) of the true God, and his divine will: And an inward force being engrafted into the will, whereby it was able to stir up it self by holy motions, without all show of resistance unto that end, for the which man was created: the body, to be short, being framed in a most wonderful decent sort, to yield obedience most readily, and without all wearisomeness unto the soul when it moved the same.
7 This Image considered, these two faculties is expressed of PAVL, by the names of righteousnes and true holines, whereby hee declareth the agreement which it had with the patterne, according vnto which it was created: A wonderfull light being powred into the facultie of vnderstanding, whereby it was endued with a most cleare knowledge (and such as was obscured by no darknes,) of the true God, and his diuine will: And an inward force being ingraffed into the will, whereby it was able to stirre vp it self by holy motions, without all shew of resistance vnto that end, for the which man was created: the bodie, to be short, beeing framed in a most wonderfull decent sort, to yeeld obedience most redily, and without all wearisomnes vnto the soule when it moued the same.