A17599:682
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.
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.
X.
The fourth end is to stir up our selves as it were with a spur to our duty, binding our selves thereunto by a vow.
The fourth end is to stirre vp our selues as it were with a spurre to our dutie, binding our selues thereunto by a vow.
XI.
That the Monastical vows, are unlawful & ungodly, it is manifest by four reasons. First, because the life Monastical is imagined a worship aof God: secondly, because they vow a Monastical life, without respect of Gods calling, and without approbation from him: thirdly, because the Monks and Nuns, bind themselves to many vile and ungodly services: fourthly, because they promise to God perpetual virginity, when as yet, either they have not the bgift of continency, or if they have it, be uncertain how long to have it.