A20766:1035
The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded
The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propounded : more largely & clearly handled and explained / published by John Downame ...The summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded : more largly & cleerely handled and explaned / published by John Downame ...
London: printed by Willi, 1625
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.
First, He playeth the Questionist, Hath God, &c. knowing that under the Mask of a Question, it was more easy for him to find a vent for his devilish and mischievous design.
First, He playeth the Questionist, Hath God, &c. knowing that vnder the Maske of a Question, it was more easie for him to finde a vent for his deuillish and mischieuous designe.
Secondly, He maketh a wonderment, Hath iGod indeed, &c? As if it were so strange a thing for the Creator to enjoin a Law unto his Creature at his pleasure, especially one only Law, and that so mild, so moderate, so easy to be observed.
Secondly, He maketh a wonderment, Hath iGod indeed, &c? As if it were so strange a thing for the Creatour to inioyne a Law vnto his Creature at his pleasure, especially one onely Law, and that so milde, so moderate, so easie to be obserued.
- i[Greek or Hebrew] Is so taken interrogatively, Job 39. 30.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Is so taken interrogatiuely, Iob 39. 30.
Thirdly, He proceeds by Equivocations and Sophistical Elenches, that you may easily know the father of all Equivocators; but yet carrying it closer, and in a more subtle manner then his Scholars, our gross Equivocators do.