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A pastime for parents
A pastime for parents: or A recreation to pass away the time; containing the most principal grounds of Christian religion. By Arthur Dent preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.A pastime for parents: or A recreation to passe away the time; contayning the most principall grounds of Christian religion. By Arthur Dent preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.
London: printed by T. East for Thomas Man, 1606
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.
Father. Express your mind more fully.
Father. Expresse your minde morefully.
Child. This I mean, that the divine nature is one, simple, uniform, immaterial, impassible, immutable, illocall, eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, void of all mixture, composition, combination, division, or dissimilitude.
Child. This I meane, that the diuine nature is one, simple, vniforme, immateriall, impassible, immutable, illocall, eternall, omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, void of al mixture, cōposition, combinatiō, diuision, or dissimilitude.
Father. Which be the proper and essential attributes of God?
Father. Which be the proper and essentiall attributes of God?
Child. The proper attributes of God are ubiquity, eternity, unity, simplicity, ⟨image 3⟩omnipotency: for these do spring from his essence and form, as naturally, necessarily and directly, as the beams, light, & heat, issue from the Sun, as the streams from a fountain of water.