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A short instruction for to arm all good Christian people against the pestiferous errors…A short instruction for to arme all good Christian people agaynst the pestiferous errours…
A short instruction for to arm all good Christian people against the pestiferous errors of the common sect of Anabaptists. Compiled by master John CalvinA short instruction for to arme all good Christian people agaynst the pestiferous errours of the common secte of Anabaptistes. Compiled by mayster Iohn Caluine
London: printed by John Daye, 1549London: printed by Ihon Daye, 1549
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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.
☞ The like was showed before by Solomon: where, in discovering mans death, he sayeth, He doeth separate the fault far from the body, until the earth do return to hy• earth whence it was taken, and that the soul go to God, which gave her. If they gloss, and say that this word spirit, doeth signify but life, there is not so little a child, which seeth not, that, that is a corrupting of the text.
☞ The lyke was shewed before by Salomon: where, in discouerynge mannes death, he sayeth, He doeth seperate the fault far frō the bodye, vntyll the earth do returne to hy• earth whēce it was taken, and that the soule go to God, whyche gaue hyr. If they glose, and saye that thys worde spirite, doeth signifye but lyfe, there is not so lyttle a chylde, whyche serth not, that, that is a corruptinge of the texte.
If there were none other testimony but this sentence of Moses, where he sayeth, that God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, about three hundred years after their death, it should be sufficient to such as would not be contentious.
If there were none other testimonye but thys sentence of Moyses, where he sayeth, that God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, aboute three hundred yeares after theyr death, it shoulde be sufficiente to suche as woulde not be contentious.
But if there be any opiniatoure which will again say it, then will the exposition which our Saviour Jesus Christ, maketh upon these words, take away all doubts. That is, that his father is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
But if there be any opiniatoure whiche wyl agayne say it, then wyll the exposition whyche oure Sauiour Iesus Christe, maketh vpon these wordes, take awaye all doubtes. That is, that hys father is not the God of the deade, but of the lyuyng.