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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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THE FOURTH SORT OF PRINCIPLES, CONCERNING THE HOLY GHOST.
THE FOVRTH SORT OF PRINCIPLES, CONCERNING THE HOLY GHOST.
HITHERTO CONCERNING, THE PERSONS of the Father, and the Son: it followeth now, that we speak of the holy Spirit.
HITHERTO CONCERNING, THE PERSONS of the Father, and the Sonne: it followeth now, that we speake of the holie Spirit.
1 Whereas the word SPIRIT, is diversly taken in the scriptures, we in this doctrine, do understand by the holy spirit, the third person in Trinity.
1 VVHereas the word SPIRIT, is diuersly taken in the scriptures, we in this doctrine, do vnderstand by the holie spirit, the third person in Trinitie.
2 The holy Spirit is that Essential, and working power, who is essentially subsisting in the Father, and the Son, from whom (the whole Deity wherein also they do subsist, being communicated unto him after an unspeakable manner) though he proceedeth, or (if we may so speak) is as it were breathed, yet is he not at all separated in respect of this his proceeding, but is in regard of the manner of his being, distinguished from the persons of the Father, and the Sonne.