A05817:98

The Practice of Piety

Name: The Practice of Piety
Author: Lewis Bayly

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.

Lewis Bayly d. 1631London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613

[36], 1031, [1] p. · 116k words · STC 1602 · ESTC S1173

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THE PRACTISE OF PIETY. › A plain Description of the Essence and Attributes of GOD, out of t… › Thus far of the divers manner of being in the Divine Essence: now… › Thus far of the nominal Attributes.THE PRACTISE OF PIETIE. › A plaine Description of the Essence and Attributes of GOD, out of t… › Thus farre of the diuers manner of being in the Diuine Essence: now… › Thus farre of the nominall Attributes.

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.

[ Earlier:95–110 of 1,315

:95p. 45–46

The absolute Attributes are such which cannot in any ⟨p. 46⟩sort agree to any creature, but to God alone.

:96p. 46

These are two: Simpleness, and Infiniteness.

These are two: Simplenesse, and Infinitenesse.

:97p. 46

Simpleness, is that whereby God is void of all composition, ¹division, multiplication, accidents, or parts compounding, either sensible, or intelligible: so that what ever he is, he is the same Essentially.

Simplenesse, is that whereby God is void of all compoposition, ¹diuision, multiplication, accidents, or parts compounding, either sensible, or intelligible: so that what euer he is, he is the same Essentially.

1Intelligentiae habent aliquid simile materiae, aliquid simile formae, Solus Deus simplex est, in quo nihil in potentia, sed in actu omnia, imò ipse purus primus, medius, ultimus actus. Scal. Exerc. 6. Sect. 2. Justin. Martyr. quaest. 129. ad Orthodoxos.Intelligentiae habent aliquid simile materiae, aliquid simile formae, Solus Deus simplex est, in quo nihil in potentia, sed in actu omnia, imò ipse purus primus, medius, vltimus actus. Scal. Exerc. 6. Sect. 2. Iustin. Martyr. quaest. 129. ad Orthodoxos.

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The Practice of Piety

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.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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.