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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.
The sum of the first Table is, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart (or mind) and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And to this Table the four first Commandments do belong. The sum of the second is, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self. And to this Table the six last Commandments do belong; for all which, our Saviour Christ himself is our warrant, who calleth these two, The nfirst and second Commandments.
The summe of the first Table is, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart (or minde) and with all thy soule, and with all thy might. And to this Table the foure first Commandements doe belong. The summe of the second is, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe. And to this Table the sixe last Commandements doe belong; for all which, our Sauiour Christ himselfe is our warrant, who calleth these two, The nfirst and second Commandements.
The sum of the first Commandment is, That we1 have God to be our God. So it is expressed in the Commandment it self, Thou shalt have no other gods before my face. The first affirmative whereof is, Thou shalt have me to be thy God. The contrary of this having of God to be our God, is, first, that which the Psalmist onoteth, The wicked are so proud, they seek not after God. Against which, pAsa made a Law, that if any would not seek after God, he should die.