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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.
The Scripture so speaketh of him as we are able to conceive thereof, and therefore in these and such like speeches humbleth it self to our capacity, attributing members unto God to signify the like actions in him.
The Scripture so speaketh of him as we are able to conceive thereof, and therefore in these and such like speeches humbleth it self to our capacity, attributing members unto God to signifie the like actions in him.
To what use serveth this doctrine, that God is a Spirit?
It teacheth us, first, to worship him in spirit and in truth, Joh. 4. 23, 24. Secondly, to drive away all fond imaginations and gross conceits of God out of our hearts, and all pictures & similitudes of God out of our sights: that we frame not any image of him in our minds, as ignorant folks do, who think him to be an old man sitting in heaven, &c. For seeing that God was never seen, whereunto shall he be resembled? Moses urgeth this point hard and often to the Israelites, saying, Deut. 4. 12. they heard a voice but saw no similitude; and addeth, ver. 15. Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves; he saith not only take heed, but take good heed, and therefore take good heed; for (saith he again) ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire; then he cometh in the next four verses to the thing that they must therefore take heed of, that ye corrupt not your selves and make you a graven Image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, &c.