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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.
First, The things which God made.
All things without exception: and in saying all things, it is manifest that we leave nothing uncreated, excepting only him that did create them, no, not the Angels themselves, the most glorious and super-excellent Creatures of God, of whom albeit Moses maketh no mention in express terms, (no more then of their fall) specifying only the ⟨p. 65⟩visible works of God, in respect of the people to whom he wrote, yet the Holy Ghost else-where concealeth not their Creation, for when the Psalmist had exhorted the Angels and Host of Heaven; the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Heaven of Heavens to praise the Lord, he addeth a reason common to them all, Let athem praise the Name of JEHOVAH: for he commanded, and they were created. But most manifest is that of PAUL, Col. 1. 16. By him were all things created, which are in Heaven and upon the Earth, things visible and invisible, whether Thrones, or Dominions, or Principalities, or Powers. By which words it is most certain, he understands the Angels.
All things without exception: and in saying all things, it is manifest that we leaue nothing vncreated, excepting onely him that did create them, no, not the Angels themselues, the most glorious and super-excellent Creatures of God, of whō albeit Moses maketh no mention in expresse termes, (no more then of their fall) specifying onely the ⟨p. 65⟩visible workes of God, in respect of the people to whom he wrote, yet the Holy Ghost else-where concealeth not their Creation, for when the Psalmist had exhorted the Angels and Host of Heauen; the Sunne, the Moone, the Starres, the Heauen of Heauens to prayse the Lord, hee addeth a reason common to them all, Let a