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An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
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.
1. By the course of Nature. 2. By the nature of the Soul of man. 3. By the distinction of things honest and dishonest. 4. By the terror of Conscience. 5. By the regiment of civil societies. 6. By the order of all causes which have ever recourse to some former beginning. ⟨p. 2⟩7. By the determination of all things to their several ends. 8. By the consent of all men.
1. By the course of Nature. 2. By the nature of the Soul of man. 3. By the distinction of things honest and dishonest. 4. By the terrour of Conscience. 5. By the regiment of civil societies. 6. By the order of all causes which have ever recourse to some former beginning. ⟨p. 2⟩7. By the determination of all things to their several ends. 8. By the consent of all men.
The Names of God, are.
Jehovah. Elohim, Exod. 6. 2. 3. Jehovah declareth Gods Nature. Elohim his Persons.
Jehova. Elohim, Exod. 6. 2. 3. Jehova declareth Gods Nature. Elohim his Persons.
The Nature of God is his most lively, and most perfect essence.
The perfection of the Nature of God is that, where by he is wholly complete in him self, Exod. 3. 13. Act. 17. 24.
The perfection of the Nature of God is that, where by he is wholely compleat in him self, Exod. 3. 13. Act. 17. 24.
The perfection of Gods Nature is the simpleness and infiniteness thereof.
The perfection of Gods Nature is the simpleness and infinitnes thereof.
The simpleness of Gods Nature1 is that, whereby he is void of all Logical relation in Arguments. That is,2 God hath not in himself either Subject, or Adjunct, Joh. 5. 26. and 14. 6.
In God to be, and to be just, and mighty, are all one; But in the mind of man, it is not all one to be, and to be mighty, or just: For the mind may be destitute of these virtues and yet a mind.
In God to be, and to be just, and mighty, are all one; But in the minde of man, it is not all one to be, and to be mighty, or just: For the minde may be destitute of these virtues and yet a minde.
