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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.
Thirdly, I note the order and manner how all this was effected.
First, The Angels, and their World, the highest Heavens, were without more ado immediately made of nothing: But for men and the World which here we see, it was somewhat in another sort.
First, The Angels, and their World, the highest Heauens, were without more adoe immediately made of nothing: But for men and the World which here we see, it was somewhat in another sort.
For touching the World it self:
For touching the World it selfe:
First, God minding to erect such a large and goodly Theatre, wherein he would make full demonstration of his incomparable both Power, Wisdom and Goodness, qframed first an empty an unshapen lump, without fashion, without form, called Waters, for the vast hugeness of it; Darkness for the confusion and lack of form; and the Deep, for the emptiness without bottom to rest upon, which, lest it should vanish and come to nothing, having no steadiness to uphold it, the Spirit of God lay upon it, and over-spread it, to keep it from decay.