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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.
Because no work is able perfectly to express the worker thereof, but all nature is a thing wrought by God, therefore it cannot perfectly teach us what God is.
Because no work is able perfectly to expresse the worker thereof, but all nature is a thing wrought by God, therefore it cannot perfectly teach us what God is.
How prove you that man cannot comprehend him?
The less cannot comprehend the greater, but every man is less then God, therefore no man can comprehend God.
The lesse cannot comprehend the greater, but every man is lesse then God, therefore no man can comprehend God.
We cannot know the things created, much less can we know the Creator: as for example, we know that there be Angels, and that every man hath a soul, but what manner of things they be we know not.