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A book of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set forth the chief points…A booke of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set foorth the cheef points…
A book of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set forth the chief points of the Christian religion ... A work right necessary and profitable for all such as shall have to deal with the captious quarrellings of the wrangling adversaries of Gods truth. Written in Latin by the learned clerk Theodore Beza Vezelius, and newly translated into English by Arthur Golding.A booke of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set foorth the cheef points of the Christian religion ... A worke right necessary and profitable for all such as shal haue to deale vvith the capious quarelinges of the vvrangling aduersaries of Gods truthe. Written in Latin by the lerned clerke Theodore Beza Vezelius, and newly translated into English by Arthur Golding.
London: printed by William How for Abraham Veale, 1574
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A book of christen questions and answers.A booke of christen questions and aunswers.
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.
Ans. Neither reason, nor will is taken1 away (as I said even now): for had they ben taken quite away, the soul of man must needs have perished, or utterly ben none at all. But both these powers are so sore defaced: that whereas the eye of understanding ought too have been most clear, according also as it was before the fall: now, (specially in matters ⟨p. 26⟩pertaining to God and concerning •yghte conscience,) it partly seeth nothing at all, (no not even when the light of the creator is set before it) according as it is too be seen in the chief points of the true religion: the which, mans reason not only loatheth, but also fighteth against them as fond and false with tooth and nail): and partly if it see, it •eeth very dimly: so as those small •parkes of glimmering light that were •elt in man to the end he should be utterly2 unexcusable (of which sparks there •s no man but he hath some bred in •is mind, and many mo have bin •ound out by men in bending themselves to the considering of higher things) •o by and by leave a man at his first step •nto the gate of truth, and therefore are •arre unable so to foreguyde him as he •aye attain too the privities of truth. And furthermore as concerning upright•es to be maintained between man and •ā: although the eyesight of mans mind be •mwhat less dull in those matters, ve•ly because god so moderateth his just •dgement, as the fellowship of mankind (out […] which he gathereth his church) might