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A glimpse of Scions gloryA glimpse of Sions glory
A glimpse of Scions glory, or, The churches beauty specified published for the good and benefit of all those whose hearts are raised up in the expectation of the glorious liberties of the saints.A glimpse of Sions glory, or, The churches beautie specified published for the good and benefit of all those whose hearts are raised up in the expectation of the glorious liberties of the saints.
London: printed for William Larnar, 1641
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
To that we answer; For the truth of them, I will go no further then this Chapter, verse 9. These are the true sayings of God. It is a very strange Phrase: If they be the sayings of God, they must needs be true. Were it not enough to say they were the sayings of God, or true sayings? No, they are the true sayings of GOD. And in the Original it is not only the true sayings of ⟨p. 31⟩God; but the true sayings of that God that is true: therefore they are certain.
To that wee answer; For the truth of them, I will goe no further then this Chapter, verse 9. These are the true sayings of God. It is a very strange Phrase: If they be the sayings of God, they must needs be true. Were it not enough to say they were the sayings of God, or true sayings? No, they are the true sayings of GOD. And in the Originall it is not onely the true sayings of ⟨p. 31⟩God; but the true sayings of that God that is true: therfore they are certaine.
1But how can they be?
- 1Quest.
1Zechariah, 8.9. If it be marvellous in your eyes; should it also be marvellous in my eyes, saith the Lord of Hosts? they are marvellous in your eyes; but they are not so in mine. It is God Omnipotent that shall do these things, by that power, whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself. Mountains shall be made plain, and he shall come skipping over Mountains, and over difficulties, nothing shall hinder him. And why should you think it strange, that these things should be, though they be great: God hath done already as great things as these. Certainly Christians that shall acknowledge the great and never sufficiently admired and adored work of God in the Hypostatical Union of the Natures, that God should be Man, should never ask this Question, how these things should be? or to think that any object propounded for our Faith is too difficult.