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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.
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.
I Suppose you can remember (right reuerend) what moued our friend Caspar Oleuian, a man of blessed memorie to publish his abridgement of that great worke, of that right worthie man of God Maister Caluin, I meane his Institutions: to wit, partly to helpe the Ministers of the Gospell through Germanie to teach Christ soundly: for he thought the prolixitie of that volume debarred a great number frō reading it:1 partly also and principallie for the benefit of our schoole he gaue a summarie exposition thereof, handling euery three monethes or quarter, one booke ⟨image 7⟩