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A10250	Propositions and principles of diuinitie propounded and disputed in the vniuersitie of Geneua, by certaine students of diuinitie there, vnder M. Theod. Beza, and M. Anthonie Faius ... Wherein is contained a methodicall summarie, or epitome of the common places of diuinitie. Translated out of Latine into English, to the end that the causes, both of the present dangers of that Church, and also of the troubles of those that are hardlie dealt vvith els-vvhere, may appeare in the English tongue.; Theses theologicae. English	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; La Faye, Antoine de, 1540-1615. aut; Penry, John, 1559-1593.	1591 (1591)	STC 2053; ESTC S101754	189,778	296

the Bible be translated into the mother tongue of all Christian people Therefore wee doe also condemne the said Papists who will not allow of such translations 13 This same word of God ought to be faithfully and sincearlie expounded vnto the people by euerie Pastour and out of the same are exhortations consolations and reprehensions to be drawne whence also the gainsayer is to be conuinced and put to silence 14 This worde of GOD is said to haue life in it not that this life is placed in the letters syllables or wordes for they are to be counted witches and enchanters who attribute anie deuine power vnto the letters and woordes themselues but because it is an instrument whereby God doth make knowne vnto vs that which he will haue vs to vnderstand for our saluation 15 To conclude this is an absolute perpetuall and necessarie note of the Church namely that the purity of doctrine be maintained therin and that the pillar ground of the truth be in the same Defended by IOHN GIGORDVS Baeterrenensis PRINCIPLES CONCERNING TRADITIONS LIII 1 HAuing last of al disputed concerning the written Worde of God this present Treatise is to bee touching Traditions which some call by the name of vnwritten word and doctrine 2 Those which the Greek cal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are commonly called Traditions amongst the Latines which they affirme not to bee contained in writing but to haue beene conueied by word of mouth as it were from hand to hand deliuered from one to an other 3 Now there are two sorts of Traditions mentioned in the Scriptures whereof some are commendable as proceding from the Spirit of God of which sort are those which are mentioned to haue beene receaued from Christ his Apostles others were inuented by the wit of man as those which Christ calleth the Traditions of the Fathers and the commandements and doctrines of men 4 The former of these were not at the first as being in the infancy of the church committed to writing but now since that time that they haue beene put into the writings of the Apostles they are not to be taken as vnwritten but to haue credit amongst all as being the verie written word of God 5 Of these there are two sorts for some do appertaine vnto the record of the hystorie and the things that were done as that which LVKE speaketh cap. 1. 2. of the things that were done by Christ some do appertaine vnto doctrine and that in a twofold difference 6 For some were concerning the Doctrine it selfe as those things touching the Lords Supper which PAVL affirmeth to haue deliuered as he receiued them of the Lord Some are concerning the rites and the good order of the Church as that touching the blood of thinges that were strangled the couering of womens heads that men should not bee couered in the time of praier and such like 7 Those thinges which are concerning the substaunce of doctrine are to be perpetually obserued in the Church but as for the things which apertain to outward rites they in consideration of diuers circumstāces as of time place person may bee chaunged yet so as regard be alwaies had which must be generally obserued in al indifferent things vnto that which maketh most for the glorie of God the aedification of the Church 8 As touching other traditions which haue risen from the bare will of man though they haue neuer so glorious a shewe of antiquitie holines and wisedome yet if they agree not with Gods word they are to be accounted for no better then will-worship and so they are to be vtterlie cast out with all other superstitions that are either directlie or indirectlie against Gods word Of this sort are the obseruations of the difference of meat garments daies praier for the dead invocation of Saints departed Mouckery single life and a thousand such like either foolish or impious toyes wherewith Christians are now much more burthened then the Iewes were in times past with their Ceremonies 9 For in the worshippe of God this hath bene is and shall be the onely rule Whatsoeuer is without faith is sin and that faith dependeth not vpon the inuentions of men but vpon the hearing of Gods worde and that there can be no obedience where there is no commandement 10 And seeing the minde of the Lord is onely knowen vnto himselfe it belongeth not vnto man to set downe what is acceptable or what is odious in his sight but vnto God onely who hath therefore taught vs how hee will be worshipped and would not leaue that point to our choise 11 The word of God furthermore is euery way perfect and thervnto nothing is to be added or detracted for it is able to make the man of God absolute Wherefore we do constantly affirme that we are bound onely to cleaue vnto it rightly vnderstoode and that wee must not depart one jote from the same The vnderstanding of it is to be drawen from the analogie of faith and the conferences of other places of Scripture 12 We hould that it is lawfull neither for counsellors nor Bishops nor for anie man to impose lawes vppon the consciences of men which onelie belongeth to the alone Bishop of our soules and our Law-giuer Christ or vnto the Apostles hauing his commaundement For although true Pastors and Doctors of the Church haue beene and are in the place of the Apostles yet haue not they the same commission that the Apostles had For the Apostles being immediatlie inspired by the spirite of God could not erre and we are bound in euerie point to beleeue them But as for Pastors and Teachers they may such is mans weakenesse oftentimes slipp and therefore they are onelie to be followed so farre as they followe Christ and his Apostles Wee condemne therefore the olde Pharisies and those which haue followed them as the Iewes who haue coined vnto vs their CABALA and manie other dotages of their TALMVD the Papists and all other false Christians who haue polluted the seruice of God with their own dreames and inuentions and as it is written ISAY 29. MAT. 15. doe worship God in vaine in teaching mens traditions Defended by IOHN RVE of CADOMA in Normandie PRINCIPLES CONCERNING COVNCELS AND FATHERS LIIII 1 VVE haue shewed in the former treatise what the authoritie of Traditions can be it followeth that wee entreat of those thinges which appertaine vnto the confirmation of them wherefore wee will first of all deale with counsels next with Fathers 2 Seeing all things in the Church of God ought to be done orderlie and that the Church is gathered out of all people and nations the parts as it were of the Catholicke or vniuersal church were not without cause deuided which parts we call particular churches 3 Whereas this diuision was by little and little framed according to the example of the Prouinces and Diocesses or seuerall jurisdictions of the Romaine Empire as both the thing it selfe and also the very names doe shew it

punishment of the wicked 11 The especiall ende for the which eternall life is bestowed vpon vs is this namly that acknowledging the immeasurable and infinit mercy of God wee may attribute vnto him eternall praises as it is meete 12 We shall at the time when God hath appointed be put in full posession of that life at which time the number of those that are to bee saued being fulfilled Iesus Christ shall be seene of vs who looke for him to our saluation to come as a redemer from Heauen 13 Seeing the Lord hath put this day in his own power to be inquisitiue when the same shal be is a point of extreame madnes We do therefore condemne those both olde and new writers who breaking into the secrets of God do think that they can set downe when that day shall be whereas the knowledge heereof is not giuen no not to the Angels themselues 14 It is our dutie therefore rather to be watchful least being drowned with the delightes of the worlde and the flesh and as it were overwhelmed in a dead sleepe that last day do come vpon vs being vnprepared at vnawares 15 Now although the full perfection of that life which wee hope for be referred vnto the very last day yet notwithstanding it taketh certaine beginnings in our mindes even while we are heere when as the holy Ghost dooth by the preaching of the worde dispell the darcknes of our minde and indue the same with the true knowledge of God whence afterwarde doth proceed a willing minde to obey his commandements and that hope which cannot deceaue them that beleeue 16 Vnto this eternall life which shall bring vnspeakable felicitie vnto the elect death eternall is oposed which shall bring vnto the wicked that destruction which neuer shall haue an end 17 Even as that most happie felicitie cannot nowe be comprehended of vs so also that miserie of the damned is altogether incomprehensible 18 This most horrible state is called the second death not because that either the soul is thereby seperated from the bodie or that the soule or the body of the damned do suffer death but because that as by the first death the body and the soul of the wicked is dissolued the one of them hastning vnto putrefaction the other going to haue a tast of the eternall paines even so by this second punishment both the soule and the body are not only wholie excluded for euer from Gods fauor but also adjudged vnto his most fearefull and neuer ending curse 19 For the like cause is this death called eternall fier because that fier is a most sharp vehement punishment but wee are not here curiouslie to dispute touching the paines of Hell lest that wee thereby run into poeticall fables 20 Yet do these verie fables teach vs that the doctrine concerning the eternall punishment which the wicked are to vnder goe euen after this life did alwaies sound in the worlde The Epicures therefore and such as deny the immortallitie of the soule are confuted not onely by the word of God but also by common sense 21 That these punishments are eternall whereunto eternall life is oposed it is manifest by the expresse●●ord of God and also by the infinit nature of Gods majestie who is offended The Church therfore justly condemned the Origenists whoe dreamed that the wicked and the Diuells themselues hauing fulfilled those punishments should at the length be deliuered 22 Yet dooth our Sauiour Christ manifestlie witnes MAT. 10.13 that the state of the damned in respect of the measure of their punishments shall not be alike Defended by IAMES TREMVLAEVS of Geneua FINIS THE TABLE AND ORDER OF THE PRINCIPLES CONTAINED in this Treatise 1 PRinciples concerning God pag 1. 2 Of the holy and vnsearchable Trinitie 3. 3 Of God the Father and the Sonne 5. 4 Of the holy Ghost 9. 5 Of the attributes of God in general 10. 6 Of the omnipotencie of God 12 7 Of the knowledge that is in God 13. 8 Of the will of God 15. 9 Of the goodnes grace loue and mercie of God 16. 10 Of Gods prouidence 17. 11 Of Gods eternall Praedestination 19 12 Of the creation of all things and their diuision 23. 13 Of good and euill Angels 26. 14 Of man 30. 15 Of the faculties of the soule of man 33. 16 Of Free-will 35. 17 Of Sinne. 37. 18 Of the diuision of Sinne. 39. 19 Of the restoring of man-kind 41 20 Of the personall vnion of the two natures in Christ 43. 21 Of the office of Christ 25. 22 Of Faith 47. 23 Of the causes and effects of faith 49. 24 Of mans justification in the sight of God 52. 25 Of Sanctification 54. 26 Of the justification of sinfull man in the sight of God 56. 27 Of good works 60. 28 Of the Law of God 63. 29 Vpon the preface of Gods Law and the first Commandement 66. 30 Vpon the second Commandement 68 31 Vpon the third Commandement 72. 32 Concerning vowes 75. 33 Vpon the fourth Commandement 78. 34 Vpon the fift Commandement 82. 35 Vpon the sixt Commandement 86. 36 Vpon the seuenth commandement 89 37 Vpon the eight Commandement 92. 38 Vpon the ninth Commandement 94. 39 Vpon the tenth Commandement 97. 40 Concerning Repentance 100. 41 Of the conception of Iesus Christ 104 42 Of the natiuitie circumcision and baptisme of Christ 108. 43 Of the Passion and death of our Lord Iesus 111. 44 Of his buriall and descention into hel 115. 45 Of his Resurrection 121. 46 Of his ascension into heauen 125 47 Of his sitting at the right hand of the Father 128. 48 Of his comming againe to judge the quicke and the dead 131. 49 Of faith in the holie Ghost 136. 50 Vpon the Article I beleeue that there is an holie Catholicke Church 139. 51 Vpon the Article I beleeue that there is a Communion of Saints 144. 52 Of the word of God 147. 53 Of Traditions 151. 54 Of Councels and Fathers 153 55 of the Sacraments 160. 56 Of the agreement and difference betweene the Sacraments of the olde and new testament 167. 57 Of the numbers of the Sacraments of the new Testament 169. 58 of Baptisme being the first Sacrament of the new Testament 172. 59 The second sort of principles concerning Baptisme 177. 60 Of the Lords Supper 180. 61 of the popish masse 185. 62 of Consubstantiation 189. 63 Of prayer or the inuocation of Gods name 193 64 Vpon the preface of the Lords praier 197. 65 Touching the Petitions of the Lordes praier in general and particularly touching the first of them 202. 66 Of the second petition 208. 67 of the third petition 208. 68 Of the fourth petition 212. 69 of the fift petition 216 70 of the sixt petition 219 71 Vpon the conclusion of the Lordes prayer 222. 72 of the sacred ministerie of the Church where the doctrine of the Law and the Gospell are compared together 274 73 of the ministers of Gods worde vnder the Gospel 281. 74 of the false ministerie of the Gospell 233 75 of the Ecclesiasticall functions that ar depraued and retained onely in name in the counterfait Romish church 238 76 of the power and authoritie of the Church 242. 77 of Ecclesiasticall censures and excommunication 251. 78 of the magistracie 258. 79 of remission of sinnes and the sinne against the holie Ghost 263. 80 of the resurrection of the fleshe 266. 81 of Eternall life 272. FINIS Beare good Reader with the false pointing in some places of the booke correct the nomber of the Principles according vnto the Table and mend these faultes with thy Pen. Pag. 10. lin 5. by for be Pa 16. lin 33. beget for begotten Pag. 19. lin 33. vvhich for of Pag. 20. lin 31. Read The Lord then vvas so far from bereauing c. Pag. 34. lin 2. adde grovving lin 23. ad in Pa. 35. ad subiect vnto none the supreame gouernour of himselfe Pa. 43. lin 23. seemeth for serueth Pag. 44. lin 34. This for the. Pa. 48. lin 29. as for for Pa. 49. lin 25. lost for left Pa. 52. lin 24. adde that hee pag. 62. lin 21. adde revvard of and 24. ad or Pa. 72. lin 5. derogate for degenerate Pa. 79. lin 35. signifiing for signified Pa. 83. lin 25. dele honor and 26. ad honor Pa. 93. lin 9. dele as Pag 103. lin 6. read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 114. lin 3. Read and although he vvas at the first pronounced innocent by Pilate c. Pa. 117. lin 5. Read for vs into c. Pag. 129. lin 30. Read tvvo sittinges Pa. 132. lin 20. Read those things vvhich Pag. 148. lin 7. olde for nevve Pa. 153. lin 3. councelles for counsellers Pag. 154. line 13 Read or primacie Pag. 168. line 38. in for into Pag. 207. line 16. summe for some Pag. 209. line 1. are for or Pag. 209. line 18. fift for first Pag. 221. line 5. in Pag. 223. line 29. Being for Seeing Pa. 227. line 17. either for ever Pag. 232. line 28. by the for of Pag. 135. line 1. for for from line 19. this for thus and 23. that vvhen c. 37. cyties for rites Pag. 246. line 3. it is c. Pag. 251. line vlt. rulers for rules Pag. 259. line 2. better for more Pag. 262. for for that