A27107:89
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.
The second Name denoting God's Essence, is Ehejeh; but once read, Exod. 3. 14 of the same root that JEHOVAH is: and signifieth. I AM, or I WILL BE▪ for when Moses asked God by what Name he should call him, God then named himself, Ehejeh Asher Ehejeh; I am tha• ⟨p. 17⟩I am: or I will be that I will be: signifying, that he is an eternal, unchangeable Being: for seeing every Creature is temporary and mutable; no Creature can say, Ero qui ero, I will be that I will be. This name in the New Testament is given to our Lord Christ, when he is called Alpha and Omega; The beginning and the ending, †which is, which was, and which is to come; The Almighty, Apoc. 1. 8. For all time past and to come, is aye present before God. And to this name, Christ himself alludeth, Joh 8. 58. Before Abraham was, I AM.
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This Name should teach us likewise to have always present in our minds our first Creation, present Corruption, and future Glorification; and not content our selves with I was good, or I will be good, but to be good presently; that when ever God sends for us, he may find us prepared for him.