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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 17: PRINCIPLES CONCERNING SIN. XVII.Section 17: PRINCIPLES CONCERNING SINNE. XVII.
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And therefore, the definition of the Philosophers, is most unperfect, who account sin to be that only, which is repugnant unto reason. For reason it self, can do nothing else, but go astray until it be lightened by the light of God. The Libertines also are to be condemned, who make that only to be sin, which a mans own conscience thinketh to be sinful.
And therfore, the definition of the Philosophers, is most vnperfect, who account sinne to be that onely, which is repugnant vnto reason. For reason it selfe, can doe nothing els, but go astray vntill it be lightned by the light of God. The Libertines also are to bee condemned, who make that onely to be sinne, which a mans owne conscience thinketh to be sinfull.
6 The seat or subject of sin, is the very soul it self, that is, the reason and the will. For the former of these, being ignorant of that which it should know, or else ruling amiss, as well in commanding, as in forbidding, hath sin cleaving unto it. And the latter, either when it willeth amiss, that which it ought not to will, or when it willeth not that which it ought to be desirous of, sinneth: The body is only the instrument of the soul in sinning.
6 The seat or subject of sinne, is the verie soule it selfe, that is, the reason and the will. For the former of these, being ignorant of that which it should know, or els ruling amisse, as well in commanding, as in forbidding, hath sinne cleauing vnto it. And the latter, either when it willeth amisse, that which it ought not to will, or when it willeth not that which it ought to be desirous of, sinneth: The bodie is onelie the instrument of the soule in sinning.
7 Some of the causes of sin, are inward; as the will, (which before sin came, was in ADAM only mutable; But after sin, as well in him as in his posterity, was both mutable and corrupt.) Some outward, as the Devil, and the diverse objects, that are laid before us.