A27107:83
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.
Of the first sort, is the Namea Jehovah or ratherb Jehueh, which signifieth eternal being of himself; in whom being without all beginning and end, all other beings both begin and end, Isa. 42 8. Psal 83. 18. God tells Moses, Exod. 6. 3. That he was not known to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, by his Name Jehovah. Not but that they knew this to be the Name of God: (for they used it in all their Prayers) but because they lived not to see Godc effecting indeed, that which he promised them; in graciously delivering their •eed out of Egypt, and in giving them the real possession of Canaan's Land; and so to be not only God Almighty, by whom all things were made; but also performing indeed to the Children, that which he promised in his word to the Fathers, which this Name Jehovah especially signifieth. And for this cause, Moses calls God first Jehovah, when the universal creation had its absolute being, Gen. 2. 4. And this Admirable Name is graven on the Decalogue's forehead which was pronounced upon the Israelites ⟨p. 16⟩deliverance, to be the Rule of Righteousness: after which they should serve their Deliverer in the promised Land.
Of the first sort, is the Namea Jehovah or ratherb Jehueh, which signifieth eternal being of himself; in whom being without all beginning and end, all other beings both begin and end, Isa. 42 8. Psal 83. 18. God tells Moses,