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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.
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, Deut. 27. 8. which could not be performed, except it were written with the vowelling points, whereunto also belong all those places of Scripture, which testify of the clearness, and certainty of the Scripture, which could not at all be, if it lacked vowels.
Our Saviour saith,1 Matth. 5. 18. that not one jot or prick of the Law shall perish, whereby it should appeare that the Law and the Prophets (for of both hee speaketh immediately before) had vowels and pricks: God also by Moses commanded the Law to bee writen upon two great stones at the entrance of the people into the Land of promise, that all strangers might reade and know what Religion the children of Israel professed; and hee commanded that it should bee writen well and plainly, or cleerly, Deut. 27. 8. which could not bee performed, except it were writen with the vowelling points, vvhereunto also belong all those places of Scripture, which testifie of the cleernesse, and certainty of the Scripture, which could not at all bee, if it lacked vowels.
- 1That the Scriptures of the Old Testament were first written with vowels and pricks.That the Scriptures of the Old Testament were first writen with vowels and pricks.