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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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3 That which is added concerning the right hand of God, is much more to be taken Figuratively, as whereby those things are attributed unto God, which are proper unto man; seeing that God, who is without a body, hath neither right side nor left, as being altogether immeasurable and infinite.
3 That which is added concerning the right hand of God, is much more to bee taken Figuratiuelie, as whereby those thinges are attributed vnto God, which are proper vnto man; seeing that God, who is without a bodie, hath neither right side nor left, as beeing altogeather immeasurable and infinite.
4 By this kind of speech therefore, being taken from the custom of Kings and Princes, who are wont to make a show unto their subjects of those, whom they will have to be in equal dignity with them, and by whom they exercise their government, by placing them in a most honourable seat; that is, at their right side, or at their left: by this ⟨p. 129⟩kind of speech, I say is meant, that Christ hath received all power both in heaven and in earth, as he himself the best interpreter of his own words doth express, MAT. 28.18.
4 By this kinde of speach therefore, being taken from the custome of Kings and Princes, who are wont to make a shewe vnto their subjects of those, whome they will haue to be in equall dignitie with them, and by whome they exercise their gouernment, by placing them in a most honorable seat; that is, at their right side, or at their left: by this ⟨p. 129⟩kind of speach, I say is meant, that Christ hath receaued all power both in heauen and in earth, as he himselfe the best interpreter of his owne words doth expresse,