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An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
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.
Of the Fall.
The fall was of Man and Angels.1
- 1The fall of Angels.
Angels fell by leaving that good state, wherein God had placed them. Jude 6.
In their fall may be observed,
1. Their corruption arising from their fall;1 by reason of which they are full of malice and hatred, and hatred, and by reason of this they do set themselves against God, and insatiably desire to destroy all mankind, and that they may do this as much as in them layeth, they