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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 3: THE THIRD SORT OF PRINCIPLES, CONCERNING GOD THE FATHER, AND GOD THE SON.
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4 And after this sort we are to conceive, (but not curiously to scan) the similitudes, of the fountain & the stream that issueth from it: of the Sun and the Sunbeams of the light, that proceedeth from light, of the water & the vapours that arise out of it, of the tree and the branches, of the mind and the speech, that is inwardly conceived, of the seed and the bud, and to be brief, of all such similitudes, as the Fathers have brought, to manifest in some measure, though not perfectly to lay open this mystery: Which they accounted a matter to be reverenced & adored, & not curiously and profanely to be sifted and waded into.
4 And after this sort wee are to conceaue, (but not curiously to scan) the similitudes, of the fountaine & the streame that issueth from it: of the Sunne and the Sunbeames of the light, that proceedeth from light, of the water & the vapors that arise out of it, of the tree and the branches, of the mind and the speach, that is inwardlie conceiued, of the seede and the budde, and to be briefe, of al such similitudes, as the Fathers haue broght, to manifest in some measure, though not perfectly to lay open this mistery: Which they accounted a matter to be reuerenced & adored, & not curiously and prophanely to be sifted and waded into.
5 And although this divine manner of begetting, doth neither cut into parts, nor multiply the essence of the Deity, which Deity, is not a thing that only may be conceived in thought, having no other being or existence, as are the general kinds and sorts of things created, but is in deed a most single, and a most pure infinite self-being: yet doth it multiply the persons, but so, as it doth in no wise sever the one of them from the other.
5 And althogh this diuine maner of begetting, doth neither cutte into parts, nor multiplie the essence of the Deity, which Deity, is not a thing that onely may be conceaued in thought, hauing no other being or existence, as are the generall kinds and sorts of things created, but is in deede a most single, and a most pure infinite self-being: yet doth it multiplie the persones, but so, as it doth in no wise seuer the one of them from the other.