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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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3 These words, Trinity, Essence, or Substance, Person, and Coessential, though they be not in express syllables (the word aPerson only excepted) to be found in the Canonical Scriptures; yet notwithstanding, they were not without just causes, brought into use, by the godly ancient Fathers; neither are they to be rejected, as adding any thing unto the word, but rather, to be still profitably, and wholesomely retained in the Church.
3 These words, Trinitie, Essence, or Substance, Person, and Coessentiall, though they bee not in expresse syllables (the word aPerson onely excepted) to be found in the Canonicall Scriptures; yet notwithstanding, they were not without just causes, brought into vse, by the godly auncient Fathers; neither are they to be rejected, as adding any thing vnto the word, but rather, to bee still profitablie, and wholsomelie retained in the Church.
4 By the word TRINITY, we understand the number of the persons, contained in the divine essence, which is one only.
4 By the word TRINITY, we vnderstand the nōber of the persons, contained in the diuine essence, which is one onely.
5 By the word essence, in this doctrine is meant, that which in deed is one, and of all things most singular or single, wherein the several persons, being every one of them, the whole & the same essence, do subsist, being distinguished in their peculiar proprieties. These persons are, the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost.