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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.
Secondly, Impurity and corruption, a thing most contrary to the nature of God, who is not only holy and pure, but holiness and purity it self, and so far off from being evil, that he ocannot be tempted of it.
Secondly, Impuritie and corruption, a thing most contrarie to the nature of God, who is not onely holy and pure, but holinesse and puritie it selfe, and so farre off from being euill, that he ocannot be tempted of it.
Thirdly, An evil and a wicked end. Whereas GOD evermore seeketh his own glory, which is absolutely good, and the chief Good of all. Therefore beside that the will of God is the Rule of all goodness, the difference in these sinful actions between that he worketh, and the work of wicked men, lieth plain, aswell in the cause that moveth him, as in the end he setteth before him: and in the manner of doing all which, though they be in respect of wicked men unjust and sinful, yet as they proceed from God, they are most just and holy; for first, by reason of this diversity of the causes moving, and of the divers ends which these two Agents, God and wicked men, set before them, it falleth out, that the selfsame Action, which, in respect of the corruption of wicked men, becometh unto them sinful and damnable, is as in regard of God most holy and righteous, being led thereto for most gracious and just respects; either to set forth the riches of his Justice or Mercy, or for the chastisement and trial of his Children, or for some other cause, as he seeth good: which ends the wicked never set before them, but all the contrary; what more blessed or glorious work, and of greater love to us was there ever, or can possibly be, then the reconciling of the World by the death of his Son? And what more just, in respect of God, then to inflict all these punishments upon him, who was our surety, and took upon him the sins of all the Elect, to satisfy for them by his sufferings? Whereof so holy and good it was, as coming from God, both in respect of the causes, ends, matter, and manner of doing, yet justly doth the Holy