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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.
In the first place may be reckoned (though it were not conspicuous to the World) that he went in soul unto Heaven after death. So he tsaith to the Thief, This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise. And after, being ready to give up the ghost, uFather, into thy hands I commit my Spirit. Which to be meant of his present going to God his Father, is manifest by other places, where the like phrase is used, as Acts 7. 59. in the Prayer of STEPHEN, Lord, receive my spirit.
In the first place may bee reckoned (though it were not conspicuous to the World) that he went in soule vnto Heauen after death. So hee tsaith to the Thiefe, This day thou shalt bee with mee in Paradise. And after, being readie to giue vp the ghost, uFather, into thy hands I commit my Spirit. Which to bee meant of his present going to God his Father, is manifest by other places, where the like phrase is vsed, as Acts 7. 59. in the Prayer of STEPHEN, Lord, receiue my spirit.
- tLuke 23. 43.
- uVerse 46.
The second step is his Resurrection, when in the1 Chambers of death he conquered death it self, and being a Morsel that the grave was not able for to swallow, arose from the dead, and made thereby a perfect conquest of all his foes, and full demonstration of his Glory, as the Apostle saith,