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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.
I make therefore Regeneration to be the whole work ⟨p. 428⟩of our being in Christ, and the means of those two notable Graces that we have from him, Justification and Sanctification; as Generation is the means of that corruption that from our fleshly Parents cometh down upon us: so our Saviour taketh it in the dplace before named, propounding this as the sum of Christianity, Unless a man be borne again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. And this Regeneration is indeed a great and a wonderful work of God, a Miracle of all Miracles, and the only Miracle which now adays he worketh ordinarily in his Church, raising men from death to life: (a more excellent life then we lost in Adam) whereupon it is called A quickening, Ephes. 2. 5.
I make therefore Regeneration to be the whole work ⟨p. 428⟩of our being in Christ, and the meanes of those two notable Graces that wee haue from him, Iustification and Sanctification; as Generation is the meanes of that corruption that from our fleshly Parents commeth downe vpon vs: so our Sauiour taketh it in the dplace before named, propounding this as the summe of Christianitie, Ʋnlesse a man bee borne againe, hee cannot see the Kingdom of God. And this Regeneration is indeed a great and a wonderfull worke of God, a Miracle of all Miracles, and the onely Miracle which now adayes hee worketh ordinarily in his Church, raising men from death to life: (a more excellent life then we lost in Adam) whereupon it is called A quickening, Ephes. 2. 5.