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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.
The perfect things in God, beside Life, Understanding, and Will, (without which no perfection can be) are Holiness and Blessedness.
The perfect things in God, beside Life, Vnderstanding, and Will, (without which no perfection can bee) are Holinesse and Blessednes.
Holiness is the purity of his Nature; from whence cometh a Righteousness in all his Ways, specially seen to us in four chief and principal Virtues, which in the Scripture you shall find for the most part to go by couples or pairs.
Holinesse is the puritie of his Nature; from whence commeth a Righteousnesse in all his Wayes, specially seene to vs in foure chiefe and principall Vertues, which in the Scripture you shall find for the most part to goe by couples or payres.
The first couple are Kindness and Truth: Kindness, in being ready to bestow all good things.
The first couple are Kindnesse and Truth: Kindnesse, in being ready to bestow all good things.