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A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…
A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Usher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoined a tract, entitled Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore written [sic] and published by the same author.A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Vsher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanvel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore writen [sic] and published by the same authour.
London: printed by M.F. for Tho. Downes and Geo. Badger, 1645
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.
Show now how the holy Scriptures have the consonant testimony of all men at all times since they were written,1 that they are the most holy word of God.
Shew now how the holy Scriptures have the consonant testimony of all men at all times since they were writen,1 that they are the most holy word of God.
- 116 The consenant testimony of all men at all times.
First, Joshua the servant of Moses, the first Scribe of God, to whom God spake in the presence and hearing of six hundred thousand men, besides women and children, who was an eye-witness of many wonders, by which the Ministry of Moses was confirmed, testifieth his writings to be the undoubted Word of God; the same do the Prophets which continued the History of the Church in the time of the Judges, both of Moses & Joshua.
First, Joshua the servant of Moses, the first Scribe of God, to whom God spake in the presence and hearing of six hundred thousand men, besides women and children, who was an eye-witnesse of many wonders, by which the Ministery of Moses was confirmed, testifieth his writings to bee the undoubted Word of God; the same doe the Prophets which continued the History of the Church in the time of the Judges, both of Moses & Joshua.
Likewise all the Prophets which successively recorded the holy Story, and Prophesies, by divine Revelation, from Samuel unto the Captivity, and from the Captivity to the building again of the Temple, and of the City, and sometimes after, receiving the same book of heavenly Doctrine from the former age, delivered them to their posterity: And Malachi, the last of the Prophets, closeth up the Old Testament with a charge and an Exhortation from the Lord to remember the Law of Moses delivered in Horeb, and to use the same as a School-master to direct them unto Christ, until he came in person himself,