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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 life of God.
By this it doth plainly appear. 1. That God is one, and indivisible and not many, as Ephes. 4. 5. 1 Cor. 8. 4.
2. That God is the knower of the heart: For nothing is hidden from that Nature which is within all things, & without all things, which is included in nothing, nor excluded from any thing, as 1 King. 8. 32. Psal. 139. 1. 2.
The life of God is that by which the Divine in Nature is in perpetual action, living and moving with it self, Psal. 42. 2. 2 Heb. 3. 12. These three following Attributes do manifest the operation of the Divine Nature towards the Creatures.
The life of God is that by which the Devine in Nature is in perpetual action, living and moving with it self,