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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 FIRST BOOK OF DIVINITY, OF GOD THE CREATOR.
THE FIRST BOOKE OF DIVINITIE, OF GOD THE CREATOR.
CHAP. I.
Of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Of God the Father, the Sonne, and the Holy Ghost.
AS all other Sciences are1 commended by their end, and every one esteemed so much the more eminent, as the end doth more excel; so it is the worthy praise of the Doctrine of Religion, which is the same that we call Divinity, that it looketh to such an end as is incomparably most to be desired, most to be loved and embraced of us; that is to say, the glory of God, aFrom whom, and by whom, and to whom, are all ⟨p. 2⟩things: And whose glory ought to be a thousand-sold more dear unto us then our lives, yea▪ then the salvation of our souls.