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Aphorisms of Christian religionAphorismes of Christian religion
Aphorisms of Christian religion: or, a very compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.Aphorismes of Christian religion: or, a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.
London: printed by Richard Field and Robert Dexter, 1596
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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Man therefore was created in the beginning after the Image aof God; so that he was like the Lord his maker, in that he represented his majesty in certain excellent graces.
Man therefore was created in the beginning after the Image aof God; so that he was like the Lord his maker, in that he represented his maiestie in certaine excellent graces.
- aGene. 1.27
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These gifts did appear partly in soul, partly in body. First the soul was endued with singular awisdom in the mind or understanding, whereby he rightly knew both God his creator, and the works ⟨p. 21⟩or creatures of God: next in the will & affection there was a conformity with the will of God, and this the Apostle calls true righteousness