A05817:108
The Practice of Piety
The practise of piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God.The practise of pietie directing a Christian how to walke that he may please God.
London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thus far of the absolute Attributes; now of the Relative, or such which have reference to the Creatures.
Thus farre of the absolute Attributes; now of the Relatiue, or such which haue reference to the Creatures.
Those are five: 1 Life: 2 Understanding: 3 Will: 4 Power: 5 Majesty.
Those are fiue: 1 Life: 2 Vnderstanding: 3 Will: 4 Power: 5 Maiestie.
1 THE Life of God is that by which, as by a most pure and perpetual act, he not only liveth of himself; but is also, that ever, and over-flowing fountain of Life, from which, all creatures derive their alives: so as that in him, they live, move, breathe, and have their being. And because only his Life differs from his *Essence; therefore ⟨p. 50⟩GOD is said only to have immortality, 1 Tim. 6.16.
1 THE Life of God is that by which, as by a most pure and perpetuall act, hee not onely liueth of himselfe; but is also, that euer, and ouer-flowing fountaine of Life, from which, all creatures deriue their