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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.
2. They are profitable to teach all true doctrine, and to confute the false; to correct all disorder private and public, and to inform men in the way of righteousness.
2. They are profitable to teach all true doctrine, and to confute the false; to correct all disorder private and publique, and to inform men in the way of righteousnesse.
3. The man of God, that is, the Preacher and Minister of the Word, is thereby made complete and perfect, sufficiently furnished unto every good work or duty of the Ministry.
3. The man of God, that is, the Preacher and Minister of the Word, is thereby made compleat and perfect, sufficiently furnished unto every good work or duty of the Ministery.
How doth this last reason hold?
Most strongly, for the people being to learn of the Minister, what to believe and what to do, and more being required of him that must be the eye and mouth of all the rest, if he may be perfectly instructed by the Scriptures, they are much more able to give every common man sufficient instruction. Again, seeing the Minister is bound to disclose the whole counsel of God to his people, (