A05817:125
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.
1 NO Attributes can sufficiently express the Essence of GOD, because it is infinite and ineffable. Whatsoever therefore is spoken of God, is not God: but serveth rather to help our weak understanding, to conceive in our reason, and to utter in our speech the Majesty of his Divine Nature: so far as he hath vouchsafed to reveal himself unto us in his Word.
1 NO Attributes can sufficiently expresse the Essence of GOD, because it is infinite and ineffable. Whatsoeuer therefore is spoken of God, is not God: but serueth rather to helpe our weake vnderstanding, to conceiue in our reason, and to vtter in our speech the Maiestie of his Diuine Nature: so farre as hee hath vouchsafed to reueale himselfe vnto vs in his Word.
2 All the Attributes of God belong to every of the three Persons, 1as well as to the Essence it self, with the limitation of a Personal propriety: as the Mercy of the Father is Mercy begetting: the Mercy of the Son is Mercy begotten: the Mercy of the Holy Ghost is Mercy proceeding: and so of the rest.
2 All the Attributes of God belong to euery of the three Persons, 1as well as to the Essence it selfe, with the limitation of a Personall proprietie: as the Mercy of the Father is Mercy begetting: the Mercy of the Sonne is Mercy begotten: the Mercy of the Holy Ghost is Mercy proceeding: and so of the rest.
- 1Attributae omnia propter [Greek or Hebrew]. singulis divinitatis personis competunt.Attributae omnia propter 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. singulis diuinitatis personis competunt.