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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.
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.
We do also condemn the ARIANS, who rob the Son, of his essential Godhead.
We do also condemne the ARRIANS, who rob the Son, of his essentiall Godhead.
And the EVNOMIANS, who have forged the inequality of the persons.
And the EVNOMIANS, who haue forged the inaequalitie of the persons.
Together with the followers of SAMOSATENVS, and SERVETVS: and all other fanatical spirits, who affirm the person of the Son, to have taken his beginning with his humane nature, because (as they hold) before that time, either the Word was not the Son, or was nothing else but a shape or a form conceived in Gods mind, of the humane nature that should afterward be borne, or was only predestinate and appointed to be, (but not being indeed) from all eternity, or else because they will have the flesh of Christ to be taken out of the substance of the Godhead, or (as some do now affirm) because all the proprieties of the Deity, were poured into the humane nature, when the word was incarnate: or to be brief, by what other dotage soever they go about to obscure the coeternal generation of the Sonne.
Togeather with the followers of SAMOSATENVS, and SERVETVS: and all other fanaticall spirites, who affirme the person of the Son, to haue taken his beginning with his humane nature, because (as they hould) before that time, either the Worde was not the Sonne, or was nothing els but a shape or a forme conceaued in Gods minde, of the humane nature that should afterwarde be borne, or was onely predestinate and appointed to be, (but not being indeed) from all aeternitie, or els because they will haue the fleshe of Christ to be taken out of the substance of the Godhead, or (as some do nowe affirme) because all the proprieties of the Deity, were poured into the humane nature, when the worde was incarnate: or to be briefe, by what other dotage soeuer they goe about to obscure the coaeternall generation of the Sonne.