The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

1. A being which God is ^fsaid to have, that he may be² known to be a thing truly and indeed subsisting, and in that respect is opposed, aswell to the imaginary course of nature, which some profane men have made a god, as to the Idols of the Gentiles, which the Scripture calleth ^glies, ^hvanities, and ⁱthings of nothing. But principally he is said to Be, because he both hath his being of himself, and giveth being to all other things, and namely, to his Word, aswell of promise, as of threatening, of judgement, as of mercy, which he effecteth and causeth to come to pass. This is it he meaneth, Exod. 6. 3. I appeared indeed to ABRAHAM, ISAAC, and JACOB, in the name of the mighty One, all sufficient, but by my Name JEHOVAH, was I not known of them: That is, I did not make my promises indeed exist unto them, for otherwise both they knew the Name Jehovah, ^kcalled upon it, and ^lbuilt Altars to Jehovah, and he himself ^mby that Name sealed up the faith and certainty of his promises. For this cause it is, that in ⁿEzekiel, threatening the famine, the beasts and other ⟨p. 10⟩plagues, he giveth credit to it by that Name, I JEHOVAH have spoken it, and in the seventh ^oChapter shutteth