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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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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.
III.
That is called an offence agiven, the fault whereof cometh from the doer himself: or an offence given is a wicked word or deed, contrary to the love of God and our neighbour: and therefore this evil of it self grieveth & maketh sad the godly, and seduceth the weak brethren.
That is called an offence agiuen, the fault whereof commeth from the doer himselfe: or an offence giuen is a wicked word or deede, contrary to the loue of God and our neighbour: and therfore this euill of it selfe grieueth & maketh sad the godly, and seduceth the weake brethren.
- aMath. 18.6.7. &c.
IIII.
That is called an offence ataken, when any thing not wickedly, or untimely spoken or done, through malice or sinister affection of mind, is wrested to an occasion of offence. Or, an offence taken is a word or deed, of it self not wicked, but taken as wicked, either maliciously or ignorantly.