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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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5 Politic, because it is behoofull for the Commonwealth, that families should be distinguished, & that bastards should not be taken in stead of true and natural Children, and Citizens: to be short, that peace and concord should not be broken; all which would be disordered, if men were suffered to pollute themselves in wandering and disordered conjunction.
5 Politicke, because it is behoofull for the Commonwelth, that families shuld be distinguished, & that bastards should not be taken in stead of true and natural Children, and Citizens: to be short, that peace and concord should not be broken; all which would be disordered, if men were suffered to pollute themselues in wandring and disordered conjunction.
6 In this commandment, by setting down the part for the whole, is forbidden all copulation of men and women out of marriage, and also all provocation of lust. Of unlawful copulation, there are five sorts; Incest, Whoredom, Fornication, ⟨p. 90⟩adultery, and copulation against nature.
6 In this commandement, by setting down the part for the whole, is forbidden all copulation of men and women out of marriage, and also al prouocation of lust. Of vnlawfull copulation, there are fiue sorts; Incest, Whordome, Fornication, ⟨p. 90⟩adulterie, and copulation against nature.
7 Incest is the conjunction of kinsfolks or allies, which in the degree and order of generation is forbidden both by the law of honesty, which is commonly called public, and also by the law of God: Now with these degrees can no mortal man dispense. Detestable therefore is the Pope, who claimeth unto him self the power, to dispense at his pleasure with these degrees. Neither doeth it any ways make for him that in the first ages, men married their own sisters, whereunto they were enforced by necessity, when as yet, mankind was not multiplied, and seeing it was the pleasure of God, that from one male, & one female, all mankind should be derived, it was necessarily understood that he did ordain the conjunction of Brethren and Sisters to be then lawful: But this occasion ceasing it is manifest, that he would not have that custom to be accounted as a law.