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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.
Secondly, the essential properties of the God-head, are here likewise to be found. He is termed Truth it self, to note the singleness of his Nature. 1. John 5. 6. The Spirit is Truth, hath an Immensity and Infiniteness of place, dwelling at once in the heart of all the Elect. 1. Cor. 3. 16. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? Rom. 8. 9, 11. The Spirit of Christ that dwelleth in you. He lay over that whole mass and lump, whereof the Heavens and Earth was afterwards made. Gen. 1. 2. The Spirit of God lay upon the Waters, over-spreading it as a Hen doth her Chicken. He filleth all things with his presence. Psal. 139. 7. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Hath a free and absolute power of working after his own pleasure. 1. Cor. 12. 11. He distributeth his gifts as he will: for he is the very power of God. So called Luke 1. 35. The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the most High shall over-shadow thee. And for that which eMatthew saith, I will cast out Devils by the Spirit of God, fLUKE hath it, If I cast out Devils by the finger of God. Yea, he is the giver of all Power and Virtue. Micah. 3. 8. But I am filled with Virtue from the Spirit of JEHOVAH, with Judgement, and with Power: Is of infinite Wisdom and Knowledge, even to fore-tell things to come. The gthings that are to come, shall he declare to you, saith Christ, yea, to sound the very bottom of the most secret things of God. 1. Cor. 2. 20. The Spirit searcheth the depths of God. And all this he hath from himself, and of himself, as most elegantly the