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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.
In the fall of Angels, these things are remarkable:
First, They were the first that fell: whereupon the1 Devil is called the first founder of sin, John 8. 44.
First, They were the first that fell: whereupon the1 Deuill is called the first founder of sinne, Iohn 8. 44.
- 1First, of the Angels.
Secondly, Their special sin what it was, appeareth not so evidently in the Scripture. JUDE saith, They left their own habitation. And PETER, that they sinned. Our SAVIOUR, that they continued not in the truth: meaning, the first integrity wherein God had set them, which is all the Scripture in express terms and proper delivereth of their fall. As for the place of Isaiah, ait is but a wresting, to apply it unto the fall of Lucifer; the Prophet speaking of Belteshatzer the king, who shined once as the glorious ⟨p. 229⟩morning star. Howbeit by that which is written, 1. Timo. 3. 6. b