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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.
To conclude (saith he) Thus shall ye say to the Idolatrous Gentiles, The Gods that made not Heaven and Earth, shall perish from the Earth, and from under the Heaven. And yDavid setteth it as the proper mark of the only God, Blessed be ye of JEHOVAH, who hath made the heaven & earth. So Isaiah 44. 19. He taketh to himself alone, both the creation and administration of all things: I JEHOVAH stretch out the Heavens alone: I stretch out the Earth by my self. And of them both the zProphet saith, Who hath measured the waters in his fifth, and covered the Heavens with a span, or in a measure comprehended the Dust of the Earth, and weighed the Mountains with a Weight, and the Hills in a ⟨p. 111⟩Balance? Who then is like unto our God? or what, or who is he, that may be compared with him, Whose akindness is up unto Heaven, his truth unto the Clouds, his righteousness as the mighty Mountain, his judgements as the great Deep? who (by his Providence) preserveth both man and beast? Thine (saith the bPsalmist) are the Heavens, yea, thine is the Earth, the inhabited World, and the things that fill it, thou hast founded.
To conclude (saith he) Thus shall yee say to the Idolatrous Gentiles, The Gods that made not Heauen and Earth, shall perish from the Earth, and from vnder the Heauen. And yDauid setteth it as the proper mark of the only God, Blessed be ye of IEHOVAH, who hath made the heauen & earth. So Esay 44. 19. He taketh to himself alone, both the creation and administration of all things: I IEHOVAH stretch out the Heauens alone: I stretch out the Earth by my selfe. And of them both the zProphet saith, Who hath measured the waters in his fift, and couered the Heauens with a spanne, or in a measure comprehended the Dust of the Earth, and weighed the Mountaines with a Waight, and the Hils in a