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A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

Name: A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties
Author: John Downame

A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helps enabling & the reasons persuading unto it the impediments hindering the practise of it, and the best means to remove them whereunto are added divers prayers and a treatise of carnal security by John Douname Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Gods Word.A guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helpes inabling & the reasons parswading vnto it ye impediments hindering ye practise of it, and the best meanes to remoue them whereunto are added diuers prayers and a treatise of carnall securitie by Iohn Douname Batcheler in Diuinitie and minister of Gods Word.

John Downame d. 1652London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622

[36], 734, 733-925, 956-961, [3]; [16], 103, [1] p. · 643k words · STC 7143 · ESTC S121690

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Book 1 › Chapter 6 › Section 2: §. Sect. 2 Who this God is, and how he may be described.

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§. Sect. 2 Who this God is, and how he may be described.

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Secondly, we are to know what this God is, or rather who he is; For what he is in his own essence, he hath not revealed in the Scriptures, neither are we capable of this knowledge, nor any other creature, seeing he is infinite and we finite. But who he is, he hath made known in his Word; namely, that he is Jehovah Elohim, a Spirit infinite in all perfection, one in nature, and three in persons, the Father, Son and holy Ghost. By which description it appeareth, that God is primum ens, and the first being, who hath his essence of himself, and giveth being to all things, as his name Jehovah signifieth; that he is uncreated, and a Spirit, as our Saviour, ¹the wisdom of the Father, hath made him known unto us, not so much thereby showing his essence what he is, which is ineffable and incomprehensible, as distinguishing him from all corporeal substances. That he is but one, because he is infinite in all perfection, wisdom, power, presence and the rest: and it is against the nature of infiniteness to be more then one; because he made and governeth all as supreme Monarch, in which Monarchy there can be no copartners; and because he is the cause of causes, from which all things have their being, and upon which they wholly depend.

Secondly, we are to know what this God is, or rather who he is; For what he is in his owne essence, he hath not reuealed in the Scriptures, neither are we capeable of this knowledge, nor any other creature, seeing he is infinite and we finite. But who he is, he hath made knowne in his Word; namely, that he is Iehouah Elohim, a Spirit infinite in all perfection, one in nature, and three in persons, the Father, Sonne and holy Ghost. By which description it appeareth, that God is primum ens, and the first being, who hath his essence of himselfe, and giueth being to all things, as his name Iehouah signifieth; that he is vncreated, and a Spirit, as our Sauiour,

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Author

John Downame d. 1652

Place

London

Printer

Felix Kingstone and William Stansby

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Year

1622

Size

[36], 734, 733-925, 956-961, [3]; [16], 103, [1] p.

Words

642,545

Catalogue

STC 7143 · ESTC S121690

Text

EEBO-TCP A20762

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3,270

Sections

1,123

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A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

§. Sect. 2 Who this God is, and how he may be described.

§. Sect. 3 Of Gods attributes, and how they are ascribed unto God.

§. Sect. 3 Of Gods attributes, and how they are ascribed vnto God.

§. Sect. 4 Of Gods primary attributes, and how they may be described.

§. Sect. 5 Of Gods secondary attributes, and how they differ from those shadows of them which are in the creatures.

§. Sect. 5 Of Gods secondary attributes, and how they differ from those shadowes of them which are in the creatures.

§. Sect. 6 What Gods secondary attributes are, and how they may be described.

§. Sect. 7 Of the persons in Trinity.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

§. Sect. 2 Who this God is, and how he may be described.

§. Sect. 3 Of Gods attributes, and how they are ascribed unto God.

§. Sect. 3 Of Gods attributes, and how they are ascribed vnto God.

§. Sect. 4 Of Gods primary attributes, and how they may be described.

§. Sect. 5 Of Gods secondary attributes, and how they differ from those shadows of them which are in the creatures.

§. Sect. 5 Of Gods secondary attributes, and how they differ from those shadowes of them which are in the creatures.

§. Sect. 6 What Gods secondary attributes are, and how they may be described.

§. Sect. 7 Of the persons in Trinity.

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