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The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A…
The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandments gathered from the mouth of a faithful pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholar in Cambridge.The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandements gathered from the mouth of a faithfull pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholler in Cambridge.
London: printed by John Harison for Thomas Man, 1603London: printed by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man, 1603
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
I am JEHOVAH▪
I am IEHOVAH▪
These words signifies the essence of God and his absolute perfection in all his attributes. It is expounded in the 13. of the Hebr. and 8. ver. Christ yesterday, and to day, and the same for ever. And Revel. 1. He that was, and is, and is to come: He that is the self same in all his properties. It signifies first Gods eternity in which he differs from all creatures, for men and Angels are everlasting, they shall have no ending, but they be not eternal, for they had their beginning from God, but he hath his being in and of himself, neither had he any beginning from any other: all other things had beginning from him, but he from none, he is from himself alone. Also power and wisdom and mercy and Justice and such other things which are properties in men and Angels, in him they are natures, in us they are weak and imperfect, but in him endless and perfect. As in Exod. 34. Where he tells his name, The Lord, the Lord, strong, merciful, gracious, &c. Men and Angels are strong, but this is a quality in them, in him a nature, so men and Angels are kind, but this is derived from his kindness & is a quality in them, but in him a nature, & in them finite because no creature can have any infinite thing in himself, but in God they are infinite. So that it signifies that God ⟨p. 5⟩is eternal and hath his being from himself, and other creatures have their being and beginning from him. In him power, mercy, Justice, &c. are infinite, in others they are finite: In him they be natures and therefore unchangeable, in others qualities and therefore mutable.
THese words signifies the essence of God and his absolute perfection in all his attributes. It is expounded in the 13. of the Hebr. and 8. ver. Christ yesterday, and to day, and the same for euer. And