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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
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Since God hath appointed the holy Scriptures which bear witness of Christ (Joh. 5. 39.) to be written for our learning (Rom. 15. 4.) he will have no other Doctrine pertaining to eternal life to be received, but that which is consonant unto them, and hath the ground thereof in them, therefore unto them only is the Church directed for the saving knowledge of God, Esa. 8. 20. Luk. 16. 29. 31. Insomuch that all Prophesies, Revelations, and Miracles, are to be judged by their consent with the Law of God written by Moses, to which nothing is to be added, nor any thing to be taken away from it, (Deut. 12. 13. 1, 2.) yea, Christ himself appealeth to the trial of those things which Moses did write of him (Joh. 5. 46.) being none other in any respect, but even the same whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets (which were the interpreters, and commentaries upon the Law written by Moses) did write of, John 1. 45