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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.
First, Nature it self doth teach it, in that by our first Creation, we were made & framed to the perfection of it, & yet retain some notions thereof in this our corrupt estate.
First, Nature it selfe doth teach it, in that by our first Creatiō, we were made & framed to the perfectiō of it, & yet retayn some notions therof in this our corrupt estate.
Secondly, The Image of this Righteousness being in manner quite defaced and done away by the Fall of Adam, the same is, by the merciful providence of GOD, for a more certain direction of our ways, and to humble us in seeing how short we come of the performance of it, again renewed, and the sum of all compendiously abridged in ten Words, Sentences or Commandments, written zby the finger of GOD in two Tables.
Secondly, The Image of this Righteousnesse being in manner quite defaced and done away by the Fall of Adam, the same is, by the mercifull prouidence of GOD, for a more certaine direction of our wayes, and to humble vs in seeing how short we come of the performance of it, againe renewed, and the summe of all compendiously abridged in ten Words, Sentences or Commandements, written zby the finger of GOD in two Tables.
Thirdly, The same are expounded and handled more at large in the whole Volume of the Scripture, where all this Doctrine is fully and absolutely taught. Of both these Laws, the Law of Nature, and the written Law, the Apostle speaketh,