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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.
In Hebrew, which was the first tongue of the world, and the most orderly speech, in comparison of which, all other languages may be condemned of barbarous confusion, but chosen especially because it was the language of that time, best known unto the Church, teaching that all men should understand the Scriptures; only some few portions by the later Prophets were left written in the Chaldean tongue, (understood by Gods people after their carrying away into Babylon) namely, the 11 verse of the 10 chap. of Jer. six chapters in Daniel (from the 4 ver. of the 2 chap. to the end of the 7 chapter.) and three in Ezra. (the fourth, fifth, & sixth.)
In Hebrew, which was the first tongue of the world, and the most orderly speech, in comparison of which, all other languages may bee condemned of barbarous confusion, but chosen especially because it was the language of that time, best known unto the Church, teaching that all men should understand the Scriptures; onely some few portions by the later Prophets were left writen in the Chaldean tongue, (understood by Gods people after their carrying away into Babylon) namely, the 11 verse of the 10 chap. of Jer. six chapters in Daniel (from the 4 ver. of the 2 chap. to the end of the 7 chapter.) and three in Ezra. (the fourth, fifth, & sixth.)
Had the Hebrew Text vowels, or points from the beginning as now it hath?
Our Saviour saith,1 Matth. 5. 18. that not one jot or prick of the Law shall perish, whereby it should appear that the Law and the Prophets (for of both he speaketh immediately before) had vowels and pricks: God also by Moses commanded the Law to be written upon two great stones at the entrance of the people into the Land of promise, that all strangers might read and know what Religion the children of Israel professed; and he commanded that it should be written well and plainly, or clearly,