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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.
*The fourth thing I observe in the Creation, is the time, which it pleased GOD to take for the finishing of this work, in that he created not all at once and in a moment, as he could have done, but took the space of six tdays for it, within which compass Heaven (the place of the blessed Angels) together with the Angels themselves were made, as Moses plainly teacheth, Gen. 2. 1, 2.
*The fourth thing I obserue in the Creation, is the time, which it pleased GOD to take for the finishing of this worke, in that he created not all at once and in a moment, as he could haue done, but tooke the space of sixe tdayes for it, within which compasse Heauen (the place of the blessed Angels) together with the Angels themselues were made, as Moses plainly teacheth, Gen. 2. 1, 2.
- *Finished in six days.Finished in six dayes.
- tGen. 1. 31. & 2. 1. 2. 3.
Therefore the first day God made, First, Heaven and Hell. For Hell, it is probable to be supposed, he did then make, when Heaven, the other part of the unseen World, was made: And that Heaven was the first work of all, is easy to be gathered by the very order with Moses u