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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.
Fourthly, It is an eternal Law, without limitation of time or place, giving a most absolute and perfect direction for all ages and times of the World, before and since the Fall, and binding to a perpetual observation of it. So in the rRevelation we find, That no unclean thing, nor which doth abomination or lies, shall enter into the new Jerusalem. And Paul telleth the sGalatians, They which do such things, (the works of the flesh there reckoned up) shall not inherit the Kingdom of God: for which cause the definition not of Righteousness only, but of every Commandment is so fitted, as the same may be a perpetual rule to serve all times and persons whatsoever: for albeit some special duties of certain Commandments shall cease when we come to Heaven; yet the substance of every one remaineth: there shall be no Seventh day set apart unto Gods Service: for all Eternity of time shall be taken up for it, and a tperpetual Sabbath; no use of Marriage, but upurity and perfection, like to the holy Angels. And the like is to be said of the other Commandments: for seeing the Image of God, witness the xApostle, standeth in Righteousness and Holiness, which are the two branches of the Law, it must needs tie us with an everlasting love, who were first made in that likeness, and whose perfection in Heaven is to be fully and perfectly renewed thereunto: which perpetuity of the Moral Law was ynoted, by engraving of it in stone.
Fourthly, It is an eternall Law, without limitation of time or place, giuing a most absolute and perfect direction for all ages and times of the World, before and since the Fall, and binding to a perpetuall obseruation of it. So in the rReuelation wee finde, That no vncleane thing, nor which doth abomination or lyes, shal enter into the new Ierusalem. And Paul telleth the