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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.
Thirdly, The particularities of this cursed & miserable estate, which all the sons of Adam do welter and lye in all their life, are manifold, and of divers kinds, comprehending xall the plagues and punishments that may be thought of, written & not written: but the chief and principal of every sort, as they lye in order, opposite to the happy and blessed estate before described, are these that follow:
Thirdly, The particularities of this cursed & miserable estate, which all the sonnes of Adam doe welter and lye in all their life, are manifold, and of diuers kindes, comprehending xall the plagues and punishments that may be thought of, written & not written: but the chiefe and principall of euery sort, as they lye in order, opposite to the happie and blessed estate before described, are these that follow:
First, The wrath of God: for so the Holy Ghost saith, yHe that believeth not the Son, the wrath of God (now) ⟨p. 246⟩abideth upon him. But this is not the full cup of his wrath,2 the dregs whereof the wicked shall drink hereafter: for that no man can endure, and live: but qualified and mixed, that it breaketh out, yet no further then this, to turn all things to their ruin, not only outward blessings, wherein God lifteth them up, that he may with a greater force cast them down; but even the good graces of God, and gifts of his holy Spirit, which all, through their own fault, work unto their evil, Christ is to them a Rock