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The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reverend father, M. John Calvin, compendiously…The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reuerend father, M. Iohn Caluin, compendiously…
The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reverend father, M. John Calvin, compendiously abridged by Edmond Bunny Bachelor of divinity; and translated into English by Edward MayThe institutions of Christian religion, written by the reuerend father, M. Iohn Caluin, compendiously abridged by Edmond Bunnie Bachellour of diuinitie; and translated into English by Edward May
London: printed for William Norton, 1580
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As touching the other heresies, that is to say, that the Father is truly and properly the only God, and he by forming the Son and the holy Ghost, hath poured his Godhead upon him, and so the Father is, as they say, the only essentiatour or maker of essence. In confuting this, he is wholly to the end of the Chapter, from the twenty two, to the twenty and nine.
As touching the other heresies, that is to say, that the Father is truely and properly the onely God, and he by forming the Sonne and the holie Ghost, hath powred his Godhead vppon him, and so the Father is, as they say, the only essentiatour or maker of essence. In confuting this, hée is wholly to the ende of the Chapter, from the twentie two, to the twentie and niene.
23 And first truly, he many ways uncovereth the vanity of this error, ⟨p. 22⟩and proveth that it maketh nothing for them, that here and there Christ is called the Son of God. For though the name of God be common to the Son, yet by reason of preeminence, that is sometimes given to the Father only, because he is the fountain and original of the deity, and that for this purpose, to make the single unity of the essence to be thereby noted. For if we mean none to be GOD but the Father, we plainly throw down the Son from the degree of God: therefore so oft as mention is made of the Godhead, we must admit no comparison between the Son and the Father, as though the name of God did belong only to the Father and not to the Son, who is the word begotten of the Father before all worlds: and that God which is mentioned of in the old Testament, in many places is ascribed to Christ in the new Testament. Isaiah 6.1. John 12.41. Isaiah 8.14. Romans 9.33. Isaiah 45.23. Rom. 14.11. Hebr. 1.10.