A briefe and piththie summe of the Christian faith made in forme of a confession, vvith a confutation of all such superstitious errours, as are contrary therevnto. Made by Theodore de Beza. Translated out of Frenche by R.F.
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A briefe and piththie summe of the Christian faith made in forme of a confession, vvith a confutation of all such superstitious errours, as are contrary therevnto. Made by Theodore de Beza. Translated out of Frenche by R.F.
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Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.
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Printed at London :: By Richard Serll, dwelling in Flete lane, at the sygne of the halfe Eagle and the Key,
[1565?]
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Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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"A briefe and piththie summe of the Christian faith made in forme of a confession, vvith a confutation of all such superstitious errours, as are contrary therevnto. Made by Theodore de Beza. Translated out of Frenche by R.F." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68595.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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1. That there hath alvvaies beene and euer shall be a Church, out of the vvhich there is no saluation.
ALl those thinges where∣of we haue spoken to bee established and performed by the goodnesse of God, be in vayne, if there were not certaine people which felt and tasted of the fruict and commo∣ditie hereof. But for as much as Ie∣sus Christ hath an eternall kingdome, a 1.1 he can neuer be without subiectes: it was meete then from the beginning of the world, that there should be a church, that is to saye, a Congregation and as∣semble of people, such as it hath pleased God to chuse by his grace, ye which haue acknowledged and serued the true God according to his wyll, by the meanes of
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Iesus Christ onely attayned by faith, as it hath bene amply declared. And wee must confesse moreouer, by the same meanes, that his Church and assemblye shal last for euer b 1.2, what soeuer assaults that all the Deuyls in hell can inuent or prepare against them c 1.3, Finallye, it must be confessed necessarilye, that wyth¦out Iesus Christe there is no saluation. And whosoeuer dieth, not being a mem∣ber of this congregation and assembly, is excluded and locked out from Iesus Christe, and from his saluation d 1.4: For the vertue to saue, whiche is in Iesus Christ, appertayneth not but to those whiche acknowledge him for their God and onely sauiour e 1.5.