A64622:8184
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.
Wherein doth the preparation to the last judgement consist?
In five things.1
- 1The preparation to the last judgement.
1. In the foretokening of the time thereof, which though it be so sealed up in the treasury of Gods counsel,1 that neither men nor Angels, nor yet our Saviour himself as man in the days of his flesh had express notice thereof,2 (that from the uncertainty and suddenness of it we might be taught to be always in readiness for it) yet it hath pleased God to acquaint us with some signs whereby we may discern Christs approaching, 3as men in the Spring time may discern Summer approaching by the shooting forth of the Figtree.
1. In the foretokening of the time thereof, which though it be so sealed up in the treasury of Gods counsell,1 that neither men nor Angels, nor yet our Saviour himself as man in the dayes of his flesh had expresse notice thereof,2