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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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We make not Mary's perpetual Virginity any matter of religion, but a likely opinion so far as it can be maintained; that it were an unseemly and unfitting thing for a sinful man to use to the act of generation the vessel which was chosen and consecrated by the holy Ghost to so high an use as was the bringing forth of the Saviour of the world; it hath warrant from the Apostles charge, Phil. 4. 8. of doing whatsoever is honest, whatsoever is of good report, whatsoever is praise-worthy, &c. As for baptism of Infants it is sufficiently warranted by reasons of Scripture, though not by example.
We make not Maries perpetuall Virginity any matter of religion, but a likely opinion so far as it can be maintained; that it were an unseemly and unfitting thing for a sinfull man to use to the act of generation the vessell which was chosen and consecrated by the holy Ghost to so high an use as was the bringing forth of the Saviour of the world; it hath warrant from the Apostles charge, Phil. 4. 8. of doing whatsoever is honest, whatsoever is of good report, whatsoever is praise-worthy, &c. As for baptisme of Infants it is sufficiently warranted by reasons of Scripture, though not by example.
Obj. 2. They object that it is by Tradition, and not by Scripture, that we know such and such Books to be Scripture?
Though new beginners do first learn it from the faithful, yet afterwards they know it upon grounds of Scripture; as an ignorant man may be told of the Kings Coin, but it is not the telling, but the Kings stamp that maketh it currant and good Coin.