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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.
Exodus 3. There appeared unto Moses in the Mount of God, an Angel of JEHOVAH, in a fiery flame, out of the midst of a Bush, and when Moses turned aside, to see that great Vision, Jehovah seeing him, cried unto him out of the midst of the Bush, and said, I am God of thy Father: The God of ABRAHAM, the God of ISAAC, and the God of JACOB. Anon he calleth himself by the name of Ehieh, or I am, and JEHOVAH. So that Christ is that true Ehieh, and JEHOVAH, the God of ABRAHAM, ISAAC, and JACOB; the proper name of the ever-living God, as appeareth by many places in the New Testament.
Exodus 3. There appeared vnto Moses in the Mount of God, an Angell of IEHOVAH, in a fiery flame, out of the midst of a Bush, and when Moses turned aside, to see that great Vision, Iehouah seeing him, cryed vnto him out of the midst of the Bush, and said, I am God of thy Father: The God of ABRAHAM, the God of ISACK, and the God of IACOB. Anon hee calleth himselfe by the name of Ehieh, or I am, and IEHOVAH. So that Christ is that true Ehieh, and IEHOVAH, the God of ABRAHAM, ISACK, and IACOB; the proper name of the euer-liuing God, as appeareth by many places in the New Testament.
The comparing of the Old Testament with the New, will make this a great deal plainer. He that led the people to and fro in the Wilderness, was Christ. For so the Prophet ysaith, The Angel of his face saved them, and setting them upon himself, carried them continually. And zPAUL, that Christ the spiritual Rock of his Church, figured by the Cloud, by Manna, and the Rock that flowed out water to the People, went together with them, conducting and leading them the way. But Moses expressly calleth him JEHOVAH: aJEHOVAH went before them by day, in a Pillar of Cloud, and by night in a Pillar of fire. And this is that which the Lord himself telleth them,