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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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1 Seeing the wickedness of mans nature is such, that not only no man can perform the Law of God, but not so much as perfectly fulfil the least part thereof; and therefore, no man in this corrupt flesh can live without sin; it will not be amiss, now that we have done with the opening of the law, to set down the treatise concerning Repentance: ⟨p. 101⟩For even as by the diligent reading over of a thing, the faults escaped in writing, are oft corrected; so the sins of our life are amended by repentance.
1 SEeing the wickednes of mans nature is such, that not onlie no man can performe the Law of God, but not so much as perfectlie fulfil the least part therof; and therefore, no man in this corrupt flesh can liue without sinne; it will not bee amisse, now that wee haue done with the opening of the lawe, to set downe the treatise concerning Repentance: ⟨p. 101⟩For euen as by the diligent reading ouer of a thing, the faultes escaped in writing, are oft corrected; so the sinnes of our life are amended by repentance.
2 Repentance therefore, which the Hebrews call TSHWAH from turning again, and the Greeks [Greek or Hebrew] from the changing of the mind, may be thus aptly defined.
2 Repentance therefore, which the Hebrues call TSHVVAH from turning againe, and the Greekes 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 from the changing of the mind, may be thus aptlie defined.