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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.
But the Moral Law is it which here we treat of, whereunto for the Reasons afore-said, these properties are ascribed:
But the Morall Law is it which here wee treate of, whereunto for the Reasons afore-said, these properties are ascribed:
First, It is a Light unto our feet, and a Lantern unto our steps, as it is in Psal. 119. 104. Solomon falso in the Proverbs, For the Commandment is a Lantern, &c. the Law a Light, guiding our steps aright in those straight ways wherein we are to walk. And hereof the Commandments of God are said to be straight and right, The gCommandments of JEHOVAH are right; Therefore hI account all thine Ordinances right in all things. So doth Solomon proclaim in his iProverbs, that by the words of Wisdom which there he uttereth, he will guide us in the paths of rightness.
First, It is a Light vnto our feete, and a Lanterne vnto our steps, as it is in Psal. 119. 104. Salomon falso in the Prouerbs, For the Commandement is a Lanterne, &c. the Law a Light, guiding our steps aright in those straight wayes wherein we are to walke. And heereof the Commandements of God are said to bee straight and right, The gCommandements of IEHOVAH are right; Therefore