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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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XXI.
That the first kind have no righteousness, but be mere unjust and impious before God, having also no strength to do that which is good, and to believe the promise of grace, is very manifest every ⟨p. 76⟩where in Scripture: as when all the sons of Adam are described in these words: that they have awicked & rebellious harts, that all theb imaginations of their hart are only evil continually, that their cthoughts are vain, that they have no dfear of God before their eyes, that not one of them doth eunderstand or seek after God. Again that when God doth enlighten us with his knowledge, he raiseth us from fdeath to life, & makes us new gcreatures: that we be deadly and hprofessed enemies unto God before he receive us to grace in our justification: that we have not loved ihim before he loved us: that we be not purged from our uncleanness by the blood of Christ, till the