A20766:1949
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.
The second is the fruit of this Repentance: A restoring ⟨p. 497⟩of us unto the former good estate, from the which, through frailty we are fallen. So saith ELIHV, Job 33. 25, 26. His flesh is softened more then in his childhood, he returneth to the days of his youth, when he doth humbly pray to God, he doth accept him so, as he beholdeth his face with rejoicing, and he restoreth a man to his Righteousness. And David, after his great fall, prayeth, tRestore unto me the joy of thy Salvation.
The second is the fruit of this Repentance: A restoring ⟨p. 497⟩of vs vnto the former good estate, from the which, through frailtie wee are falne. So saith ELIHV, Iob 33. 25, 26. His flesh is softened more then in his childhood, he returneth to the dayes of his youth, when hee doth humbly pray to God, he doth accept him so, as hee beholdeth his face with reioycing, and he restroreth a man to his Righteousnesse. And Dauid, after his great fall, prayeth, tRestore vnto mee the ioy of thy Saluation.
Thirdly, What sins true Repentance doth free us from. All, without exception, how great soever, and how many soever the same be, secret, known, wilful, or whatsoever else, except that one sin against the Holy Ghost, which none of the faithful can fall into, nor can be repented of: for the multitude of our sins is not to be compared with the Infiniteness of GODS Merits, but is infinitely surpassed and overcome of it, Isaiah 1. 18. If your sin were as Scarlet double dyed, they shall be as white as Snow: if they were as red as Purple, they shall be made like unto the Wool: for my thoughts (saith the Lord) Isaiah 55. 8, 9. are not as your thoughts, nor my ways as your ways (my thoughts and ways of mercy and forgiveness, as your thoughts and ways of wickedness: they are too base and shallow to be compared to them) but as the Heavens are higher then the Earth, so (and infinitely more) are my ways higher then your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts. DAVID,