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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Title: 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.
Author: Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.
Publication: 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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Subject terms: Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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8. Whiche be the true members of the Church.

THose be of the Churche which haue the marke of Christians, that is to say faith a 1.1. Those haue faith whych receiue the only sauioure Iesus Chryste as hath bin sayde b. Flying from synne following righteousnes, c 1.2 that is to saye, whiche loue and feare only the true and eternall God, and their neyghbours, ac∣cording to the word of God, without tur∣ning or swaruing eyther to the righte hande or to the lefte: d 1.3 not but that there are great infirmites in the most perfitest, e 1.4 and also there is greate dyfference be∣twene those in whom sinne reygneth ful∣lye, and those in whome there are yet but rem nantes of synne. f 1.5 Briefe, those same be of the true Church in whom the spirit (whiche is the gifte of grace proper to the electe and not of nature) striueth a∣gainst

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the fleshe, g 1.6 and whiche may saye with S. Paule, I doe the euill whiche I would not, h 1.7 that is to say, to the which I giue no suche consent. As those doe whi∣che be not regenerated by the spirite of God. Beholde here those which be of the true Churche, but as for the others, of what estate or degrée soeuer: they bée in the Churche, yea though they were A∣postles of as good auctoritie as euer was Iudas, i 1.8 yet bee they not of the churche. But assoone as God hath reuealed them, they oughte to be k 1.9 reiected and eschued of all Christians, so long as they be irre∣formable: for suche be not of the churche this day in effect, whiche may be or shall be to morrowe, or when it shall please* 1.10 God, who according to his eternall coun∣cell, hath disposed the monethes and ty∣mes, in the whiche he will call his elect to himselfe. m 1.11

Notes

a 1.1

Iohn. 8. &. 17. Iohn. 4. 1. Iohn. 4.

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c 1.2

Iohn. 3. Roma. 16. Roma. 8 Gala. 5.

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d 1.3

Iohn. 1. & 2. and 3.

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e 1.4

1. Iohn. 1. 1. Cor▪ 15. Philip. 3.

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f 1.5

Roma. 6. 2. Cor. 7. 1. Iohn. 3.

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g 1.6

Roma. 7. and all the chap. Gala. 5.

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h 1.7

Roma. 7.

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i 1.8

Iohn. 6. 1 Iohn. 1.

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k 1.9

Iohn. 15. 1. Cor 5. 2. Thessa 3 2.

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* 1.10

l 1. Cor. 2.

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m 1.11

Matth. 20. 1. Cor. 7.

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