The substance of Christian religion soundly set forth in two bookes, by definitions and partitions, framed according to the rules of a naturall method, by Amandus Polanus professor of diuinitie. The first booke concerneth faith. The second concerneth good workes. The principall pointes whereof are contained in a short table hereunto annexed. Translated out of Latin into English by E.W.
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The substance of Christian religion soundly set forth in two bookes, by definitions and partitions, framed according to the rules of a naturall method, by Amandus Polanus professor of diuinitie. The first booke concerneth faith. The second concerneth good workes. The principall pointes whereof are contained in a short table hereunto annexed. Translated out of Latin into English by E.W.
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Polanus von Polansdorf, Amandus, 1561-1610.
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Imprinted at London :: By R. F[ield] for Iohn Oxenbridge dwelling in Paules churchyard, at the signe of the Parrot,
1595.
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Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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"The substance of Christian religion soundly set forth in two bookes, by definitions and partitions, framed according to the rules of a naturall method, by Amandus Polanus professor of diuinitie. The first booke concerneth faith. The second concerneth good workes. The principall pointes whereof are contained in a short table hereunto annexed. Translated out of Latin into English by E.W." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09819.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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Hitherto concerning the explication of the ten commandements: now concerning the vses of the morall law.
* 1.1The vses of the morall law are of two sorts: common or proper.
The common vses are those, which doe e∣qually belong to the elect, and reprobate.
And they are three. 1. To preserue disci∣pline, both in the regenerate, and vnregene∣rate, and that two wayes First, because it bin∣deth all men, that they should gouerne the moueable or outward members, to the intent that the outward deedes may agree with Gods law. Secondly, because it establisheth punishments euen bodily in this life, against those who commit outward offences, which punishments God doth execute on the guil∣ty, either by the Magistrate, or by some other meanes.
2. To teach vs to know, what a one God is.
3. To teach vs to acknowledge our sinnes. Rom. 3▪ that the whole world might be guil∣ty before God. By the law cōmeth the know∣ledge
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of sinne. Rom. 7.7.
The proper vses of the law are those which do belong to the elect onely, or to the repro∣bate onely.
The vses of the law pertaining particular∣ly to the elect are these.
1. To stirre vp and increase repentance in the elect.
2. To kindle in the elect desire to seeke for∣giuenesse of sinnes, and righteousnesse in Christ.
3. To stirre vp, and thrust forward the elect to an endeuour to the perpetuall me∣ditation, and calling vpon the holy spi∣rite for grace, whereby they may be renued daily, more and more, according to the i∣mage of God.
4. To stirre vp and increase in them the de∣sire of perfection, which we shall obtaine in the life to come.
5. To be to the elect a direction how to liue, and a rule of good workes. For it teacheth what workes please God.
The vses of the law belonging onely to the reprobate are three.