A64622:8272
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 Heathen Chaldeans, to a question propounded by the King of Babel, make answer;h that it was a rare thing which he required, and that none other could show it, except the Gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. But the rarity of this lieth in the contrary to that which they imagined to be so plain: that hei who is over all, God blessed for ever, should take our flesh and dwell, or* pitch his tabernacle with us. That ask the glory of God filled the Tabernacle, (which was al figure of the humane nature of our Lord) with such a kind of fullness, that Moses himself was not able to approach unto it; (therein coming short,m as in all things, of the Lord of the house) and filled the Temple of Solomon (a type likewisen of the body of our Prince of Peace) ino such sort that the Priests could not enter therein: sop in him all the fullness of the Godhead should dwell bodily.
The Heathen Chaldeans, to a question propounded by the King of Babel, make answer;h that it was a rare thing which hee required, and that none other could shew it, except the Gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. But the rarity of this lyeth in the contrary to that which they imagined to bee so plain: that heei who is over all, God blessed for ever, should take our flesh and dwell, or