A27107:94
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.
Thus far of the names which signify God's Essence.
Thus far of the names which signifie God's Essence.
The name which signifieth the Persons in the Essence, is chiefly one,* Elohim.
- *Nomen Elohim est personarum [Greek or Hebrew]. Alsted.Nomen Elohim est personarum 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Alsted.
Elohim signifieth the mighty Judges: it is a name of the plural number, to express the Trinity of Persons in† Unity of Essence. And to this purpose the holy Ghost beginneth the holy Bible with this plural Name of God, joined with a Verb of the singular number; as Elohim Bara, Dii creavit. fThe mighty Gods, or all the three Persons in the God-head, created. The Jews also note in the Verb [Greek or Hebrew] Bara consisting of three Letters, the mystery of the Trinity, by [Greek or Hebrew] Beth, Ben, the Son: by [Greek or Hebrew] Resh, Ruach, the Spirit, by [Greek or Hebrew] Aleph, Ab, the Father. But this holy mystery is more clearly taught by Moses, Gen. 3. 23 And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, the Man is become as one of us. And