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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 19: PRINCIPLES CONCERNING THE RESTORING OF MANKIND. XIX.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PRINCIPLES CONCERNING THE RESTORING OF MANKIND. XIX.
WHERE FIRST THE PERSON OF CHRIST is to be spoken of.
1 God would not have the felicity of man to consist, in that first estate wherein he was created (for then had his felicity been earthly, and in some sort, subject unto change) but he placed it in a more firm and a more excellent estate, whereby he might live a heavenly ⟨p. 42⟩life, and such, as from the which, he could in no wise fall.
1 GOd would not haue the felicitie of man to consist, in that first estate wherein hee was created (for then had his felicitie beene earthly, and in some sort, subject vnto chaunge) but he placed it in a more firme and a more excellent estate, whereby he might liue a heauenlie ⟨p. 42⟩life, and such, as from the which, he could in no wise fall.