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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.
In the beginning of the world he delivered his Word by Revelation, 1and continued the knowledge thereof by Tradition, while the number of his true worshippers were small, but after he chose a great and populous Nation, in which he would be honoured and served, he caused the same to be committed to writing for all ages to the end of the world: for about the space of two thousand five hundred years from the Creation, the people of God had no written Word to direct them; Thence for the space of three thousand one hundred years, unto this present time, the Word of God was committed unto them in writing, yet so that in half that time Gods will was also revealed without writing extraordinarily, and the holy books indited one after another, according to the necessity of the times, but in this last half, the whole Canon of the Scriptures being fully finished, we and all men, unto the worlds end, are left to have our full instruction from the same without expecting extraordinary revelations, as in times past.
In the beginning of the world hee delivered his Word by Revelation, 1and continued the knowledge thereof by Tradition, while the number of his true worshippers were small, but after hee chose a great and populous Nation, in which hee would bee honoured and served, hee caused the same to bee committed to writing for all ages to the end of the world: for about the space of two thousand five hundred yeeres from the Creation, the people of God had no writen Word to direct them; Thence for the space of three thousand one hundred yeers, unto this present time, the Word of God was committed unto them in writing, yet so that in half that time Gods will was also revealed without writing extraordinarily, and the holy books indited one after another, according to the necessity of the times, but in this last half, the whole Canon of the Scriptures being fully finished, wee and all men, unto the worlds end, are left to have our full instruction from the same without expecting extraordinary revelations, as in times past.
- 1How the Scriptures were delivered.