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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.
Of the Eternal Decrees of God.
Of the Eternall Decrees of God.
GOD being thus in his Nature and Person most glorious, hath further embroidered himself in glory, by two notes of excellency, which he taketh to him, Kingdom and Honour.
GOD being thus in his Nature and Person most glorious, hath further embroidered himselfe in glorie, by two notes of excellencie, which he taketh to him, Kingdome and Honour.
Kingdom, is that whereby he doth exercise an absolute Sovereignty toward others. The order whereof, answerable to the relation between the Persons themselves, is from the Father in the Son by the Holy Ghost: to whom is attributed the immediate doing of them.
Kingdome, is that whereby hee doth exercise an absolute Soueraigntie toward others. The order whereof, answerable to the relation betweene the Persons themselues, is from the Father in the Sonne by the Holy Ghost: to whom is attributed the immediate doing of them.