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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.
We have hitherto spoken of the good and perfect1 things that are in God, His perfect and incommunicable manner of having of them, standeth in infiniteness and eternity. Both of them such as no man nor Angel is capable of, nor can be communicated to any creature.
Wee haue hitherto spoken of the good and perfect1 things that are in God, His perfect and incommunicable manner of hauing of them, standeth in infinitenesse and eternitie. Both of them such as no man nor Angell is capable of, nor can be communicated to any creature.
- 1These are the perfect things themselves. His perfect & incommunicable manner of having of them, is Infiniteness and Eternity. Infiniteness, whereby he is without circumscription.These are the perfect things themselues. His perfect & incommunicable manner of hauing of them, is Infinitenesse and Eternitie. Infinitenesse, whereby he is without circumscription.
By infiniteness, I mean an unmeasurable Power, Wisdom, and Glory, Goodness, Greatness, filling Heaven and Earth, and being every-where present, within and without the World, whereof there be many evident testimonies in the Scripture: Jeremiah 23. 25. Do not I fill Heaven and Earth, saith JEHOVAH? Psal. 139. 7. Whither should I go from thy Spirit? or whither should I fly from thy presence? If I should climb the Heavens, thou art ⟨p. 20⟩there, or lay my bed in the Grave, behold, thou art present. If I should take the wings of the Morning, and dwell in the uttermost part of the Earth, even thither should thy hand lead me, and thy right hand lay hold upon me, Isaiah 66. 1. Heaven is my Throne, and the Earth is my Footstool. As for those places of Scripture, where God is said to remove from one place unto another, as