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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 46: PRINCIPLES CONCERNING CHRIST HIS ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN. XLVI.
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.
PRINCIPLES CONCERNING CHRIST HIS ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN. XLVI.
SEEING THE ARTICLE OF CHRIST'S Resurrection hath been already opened: it now followeth, that we deal with his ascension into heaven.
SEING THE ARTICLE OF CRISTS REsurrection hath bene alreadie opened: it now followeth, that we deale with his ascension into heauen.
1 AS the Scripture doth teach, that the death, resurrection, and burial of Christ were true, and not feigned; so, the same doth testify, that his Ascension into heaven, was not only visible, but also local.
1 AS the Scripture dooth teach, that the death, resurrection, and buriall of Christ were true, and not fained; so, the same doth testifie, that his Ascension into heauen, was not onely visible, but also locall.
2 For although, the word ASCENDING, is sometimes Figuratively spoken concerning God; yet in this Article of the Faith, it is taken in his proper and natural signification, in such sort, that by it is expressed a passage, from a lower place unto a higher, which is pointed out by the name of Heaven.