A27107:100
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
2. Shaddai, *That is, Omnipotent. By this Name, God usually styled himself to the Patriarchs, I am Ell Shaddai, the strong God, Almighty. Because he is perfectly able to defend his servants from all evil: to bless them with all spiritual and temporal blessings, and to perform all his promises which he hath made unto them for this life, and that which is to come. This name belongeth only to the Godhead, and to no creature, no, not to the humanity of Christ. This may teach us with the Patriarchs, to put our whole confidence in God, and not to doubt of the true performance of his promises.
2. Shaddai, *That is, Omnipotent. By this Name, God usually stiled himself to the Patriarchs, I am El Shaddai, the strong God, Almighty. Because he is perfectly able to defend his servants from all evil: to bless them with all spiritual and temporal blessings, and to perform all his promises which he hath made unto them for this life, and that which is to come. This name belongeth only to the Godhead, and to no creature, no, not to the humanity of Christ. This may teach us with the Patriarchs, to put our whole confidence in God, and not to doubt of the true performance of his promises.
- *The 70 t•rns it [Greek or Hebrew]; It is derived of Dai sufficiency, and the Relative [Greek or Hebrew], the same that [Greek or Hebrew], or of S•ad, a Dug, because God feeds his children with sufficiency of all grace, as the loving Mother, the Child, with the Milk of her Breasts,The 70 t•rns it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; It is derived of Dai sufficiency, and the Relative 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the same that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or of S•ad, a Dug, because God feeds his children with sufficiency of all grace, as the loving Mother, the Child, with the Milk of her Breasts,