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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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6 Whereas DAMASCENE then, doth call the person of Christ wholly considered, a compound person, because he is God and man, his words are warily to be taken: For the parts concurring together, for the making of some third thing, which of it self is not, (as the soul and the body in the making of a man) do of them selves exist before the third thing made of them is existent. But in the person of Christ, the Deity of the word, doth not only sustain the consideration of the one nature: but even of the whole person, attributing this unto that man, that he doth subsist in the very Son of God, and is not man alone of him self: For otherwise there should be one person of the Son of God, and another of the Son of man, neither whereof could of him self be the Mediator.
6 Whereas DAMASCEN then, doth call the person of Christ wholie considered, a compound person, because hee is God and man, his words are warily to be taken: For the partes concurring togeather, for the making of some third thing, which of it selfe is not, (as the soule and the body in the making of a man) doe of them selues exist before the third thing made of them is existent. But in the person of Christ, the Deitie of the worde, doth not onely sustaine the consideration of the one nature: but euen of the whole person, attributing this vnto that man, that hee doth subsist in the very Sonne of God, and is not man alone of him selfe: For otherwise there should be one person of the Son of God, and another of the Sonne of man, neither wherof could of him selfe be the Mediator.
7 The parts furthermore, that properly make up the whole, are compounded together: But the Deity can admit no composition, seeing it is most perfect; and therefore in this conception, it did prefer that man unto the dignity of the divine person: but so as nothing was added ⟨p. 106⟩thereby unto the word, but rather, that that man did receive this personal dignity from the word, whereby, it is come to pass, that (as we have said) he is exalted above the Angels, the natures yet remaining.