A systeme or body of divinity consisting of ten books : wherein the fundamentals and main grounds of religion are opened, the contrary errours refuted, most of the controversies between us, the papists, Arminians, and Socinians discussed and handled, several Scriptures explained and vindicated from corrupt glosses : a work seasonable for these times, wherein so many articles of our faith are questioned, and so many gross errours daily published / by Edward Leigh.
About this Item
Title
A systeme or body of divinity consisting of ten books : wherein the fundamentals and main grounds of religion are opened, the contrary errours refuted, most of the controversies between us, the papists, Arminians, and Socinians discussed and handled, several Scriptures explained and vindicated from corrupt glosses : a work seasonable for these times, wherein so many articles of our faith are questioned, and so many gross errours daily published / by Edward Leigh.
Author
Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
Publication
London :: Printed by A.M. for William Lee,
1654.
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms
Theology, Doctrinal.
Church history -- 17th century.
Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47625.0001.001
Cite this Item
"A systeme or body of divinity consisting of ten books : wherein the fundamentals and main grounds of religion are opened, the contrary errours refuted, most of the controversies between us, the papists, Arminians, and Socinians discussed and handled, several Scriptures explained and vindicated from corrupt glosses : a work seasonable for these times, wherein so many articles of our faith are questioned, and so many gross errours daily published / by Edward Leigh." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47625.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2025.
Pages
Object. There is a mortal sin, 1 Iohn 5. 16. therefore a venial sin.
Answ. He speaks of a mortal sinne, not by nature, or by merit, but by event, the event of which shall certainly be death, and the person out of all hope of par∣don. Vide Bezam.
Of all words sin hath no diminutive, not in any tongue known to us commonly only the Spaniard hath his Peccadillo, a petty sin. DrClark.
Sinnes considered in reference to the object are all great, so Peccata sunt aequalia.
2. The least sin that ever was committed had in it the whole nature of sin, it is tam peccatum, as truly sin as the greatest.
email
Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem?
Please contact us.