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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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9 Yet is not the humanity by this means made equal with the word, either in substance (which is the proper error of EVTYCHES) or in authority, as the Ubiquitaries do now hold: because, that that government, whereby Christ as he is man, hath all things subject to himself, as well in heaven, in earth, as under the earth, is limited within the compass of Creatures; excepting him saith the Apostle, who hath made all things subject unto him; that ⟨p. 130⟩is the Father, with whom, as the WORD hath the one and the same essence from eternity: so hath he the one and the same power fully in common with him, in so much, that, the Fathers have said truly, that Christ in respect of this government also, is both greater and lesser then himself.
9 Yet is not the humanitye by this meanes made equall with the worde, either in substaunce (which is the proper error of EVTYCHES) or in authority, as the Vbiquitaries do now hold: because, that that gouernment, wherby Christ as hee is man, hath all things subject to himselfe, as well in heauen, in earth, as vnder the earth, is limited within the compasse of Creatures; excepting him saith the Apostle, who hath made all things subject vnto him; that ⟨p. 130⟩is the Father, with whome, as the WORD hath the one and the same essence from aeternitie: so hath he the one and the same power fully in common with him, in so much, that, the Fathers haue said trulye, that Christ in respect of this gouernment also, is both greater and lesser then himselfe.
10 False also and blasphemous, is that Ubiquitary and all present Majesty of the essential humanity of Christ, which they seem to have sharply gathered from this sitting at the right hand of the Father; for besides that, by this means the truth of the flesh of Christ is manifestly abolished: It is a foolish thing, to reason from the power of his flesh unto the essence thereof: that is, to hold that the essence of his humanity, doth reach as far as the power thereof, where as the very faith of that Centurion, so much commended by our Saviour Christ,