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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 consideration thereof should put us in mind, that nothing which is vile and base should be offered unto God in the worship of him. Secondly, it serveth to drive all gross and idolatrous conceits of God out of our minds, and to detect and bewray the impiety and blasphemy of those persons, who either by making of pictures (as they thought) of God, or by maintaining of them, being made; or by suffering them to stand still without defacing, (especially if it be known) have thereby denied God to be incomprehensible. For those pictures and resemblances of God which ignorant men have forged in their own brain do tell us, and say, that God may be comprehended and contained within a place, yea, in a small place, or in any place, as a man or other creature, which is most high blasphemy against the Majesty of Almighty God.
The consideration thereof should put us in mind, that nothing which is vile and base should be offered unto God in the worship of him. Secondly, it serveth to drive all grosse and idolatrous conceits of God out of our minds, and to detect and bewray the impiety and blasphemy of those persons, who either by making of pictures (as they thought) of God, or by maintaining of them, being made; or by suffering them to stand still without defacing, (especially if it be known) have thereby denied God to be incomprehensible. For those pictures and resemblances of God which ignorant men have forged in their own brain doe tell us, and say, that God may be comprehended and contained within a place, yea, in a small place, or in any place, as a man or other creature, which is most high blasphemy against the Majesty of Almighty God.
What is his eternity?
It is an essential property of God whereby his essence is exempted from all measure of time,