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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.
Earth is the middle World, made for man, Psal. 115. 16 The Heavens are JEHOVAHS, and the Earth which he hath given unto the sons of men.
Earth is the middle World, made for man, Psal. 115. 16 The Heauens are IEHOVAHS, and the Earth which hee hath giuen vnto the sonnes of men.
Two things in it come to be considered, the parts and the ornaments.
The parts I call the four Elements: lFire, the uppermost Globe wherein was Light, an adjunct and quality of the Fire: Air (or as Moses calleth it, an mextent, we improperly the Firmament) comprehending all that void place between the Clouds and the Earth, which giveth breath of life to all things that breathe: Water with all the Channels thereof, the Seas, the Floods, the Lakes, the Springs: And Earth, (or the dry ground) the Bottom and Centre of the World, for man to inhabit.
The parts I call the foure Elements: lFire, the vppermost Globe wherein was Light, an adiunct and qualitie of the Fire: Ayre (or as Moses calleth it, an mextent, we improperly the Firmament) comprehending all that voyd place betweene the Cloudes and the Earth, which giueth breath of life to all things that breathe: Water with all the Chanels thereof, the Seas, the Floudes, the Lakes, the Springs: And Earth, (or the dry ground) the Bottome and Center of the World, for man to inhabit.