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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
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XVI.
The difference of both Testaments, consisting in the manner of administration, hath four parts.
The difference of both Testamentes, consisting in the maner of administration, hath foure parts.
XVII.
The first difference is this, that the covenant of grace in the old Testament, that is, before the coming of Christ, & that glorious appearance of the holy Ghost, was administered to aAbraham only with his ⟨p. 48⟩posterity, and of these principally to the people of the Jews bthe Israelites. But in the new Testament, that is, after the incarnation of Christ, and his Ascension into heaven, the same is administered to other cnations which came of Abraham's progeny, that is, to the Greeks & d