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An abridgement of the Institution of Christian religion written
An abridgement of the Institution of Christian religion written by M. John Calvin. Wherein brief and sound answers to the objections of the adversaries are set down. By William Lawn minister of the word of God. Faithfully translated out of Latin into English by Christopher Fetherstone minister of the word of GodAn abridgement of the Institution of Christian religion written by M. Ihon Caluin. VVherein briefe and sound ansvveres to the obiections of the aduersaries are set dovvne. By VVilliam Lawne minister of the word of God. Faithfullie translated out of Latine into English by Christopher Fetherstone minister of the word of God
Edinburgh: printed by Thomas Vautrollier, 1586
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.
5 Therefore if the words be not invented in vain, we must beware that in refusing the same we be not thought to be proudly bold.1 Would God they were buried, so that all did agree together in this faith, that the father, son, & holy ghost are one God:2 & yet that neither the son is the father, or the holy ghost the son, but that they are distinguished by a certain property.
5 Therfore if the words be not inuented in vain, we must beware that in refusing the same we be not thought to be proudlie bold.1 Would God they were buried, so that all did agree togeather in this faith, that the father, sonne, & holy ghost are one God:2 & yet that neither the sonne is the father, or the holy ghost the sonne, but that they are distinguished by a certaine propertie.
- 1A caution
- 2The persons are distinguished by properties.
6 But omitting to dispute of words, let us now speak of the thing it self: I call a person a subsistence in the essence of God,1 which being referred unto the rest, is distinguished by a certain incommunicable property, or which is not common to the other. A subsistence is an other thing then an essence. For if the word were simply GOD and had nothing proper severally to it self,2