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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
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.
London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622
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.
§. Sect. 3 Of Gods attributes, and how they are ascribed unto God.
§. Sect. 3 Of Gods attributes, and how they are ascribed vnto God.
Thirdly, we must know, that this divine essence is infinite in all perfection. The which perfection is seen in his properties, which are not properly in God, who is all essence and no qualities: for whatsoever is in God, is God, but according to the capacity of our shallow understanding: neither ⟨p. 31⟩do they differ from his essence, nor one from another; for God is one, and of a most simple nature, admitting no division into parts, faculties or properties, nor yet any essential distinction, but only in our comprehension or manner of understanding. So as we must not take his properties to be any parts of his essence, seeing every essential property is his whole essence, and therefore howsoever distinguished in respect of his divers manner of working towards the creatures, yet not in themselves, but are inseparable one from another. In which respect, the wisdom of God, is the wise God; the power of God, the powerful God; and so in the rest. And his wisdom, power, mercy, goodness, justice, truth, are all one in their essence, there being in God but one most simple and pure act, unto which, divers names are given in the Scriptures, to show unto us how it is diversly exercised towards the creatures.
Thirdly, we must know, that this diuine essence is infinite in all perfection. The which perfection is seene in his properties, which are not properly in God, who is all essence and no qualities: for whatsoeuer is in God, is God, but according to the capacity of our shallow vnderstanding: neither ⟨p. 31⟩