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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.
Preface: THE AUTHORS PREface to Master Beza.Preface: THE AVTHORS PREface to Maister Beza.
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.
THE AUTHORS PREface to Master Beza.
THE AVTHORS PREface to Maister Beza.
I Suppose you can remember (right reverend) what moved our friend Caspar Olevian, a man of blessed memory to publish his abridgement of that great work, of that right worthy man of God Master Calvin, I mean his Institutions: to wit, partly to help the Ministers of the Gospel through Germany to teach Christ soundly: for he thought the prolixity of that volume debarred a great number from reading it:1 partly also and principally for the benefit of our school he gave a summary exposition thereof, handling every three months or quarter, one book ⟨image 7⟩or part of the whole, so that he finished & perfected yearly the Sum of Christian Religion.2 And I trust the Lord gave a blessing unto that his work, & that many have profited thereby, which vouchsafed the reading of the same, & as for my scholars, which have heard his readings, I am well assured they have profited much thereby. But when as he was taken by death from us in the midst of his labours and translated to the celestial school; the necessity of this place so requiring & duty binding me, & as the brethren (which them were to provide for this school) desired: I did succeed Olevian in this work: & so anon after his death I began to expound the abridgement of Calvins Institution unto •ine auditory, and in one half year •ace (for sooner I could not well do it) I •inished the same.