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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.
Upon this ground it is, that the Apostle telleth us, that we xhave boldness to enter into the Holyest by the blood of Jesus; by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. That as in the Tabernacle, there was no passing from the Holy to the most Holy place, but by the veil: so now there is no passage to be looked for from the Church Militant to the Church Triumphant, but by the flesh of him, who hath said of himself;y I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me. Jacob in his dream beheldz a ladder set upon the Earth, the top whereof reached to Heaven, and the Angels of God ascending and descending on it, the Lord himself standing ⟨p. 20⟩above it. Of which vision none can give a better interpretation then he, who was prefigured therein, gave unto Nathaniel. aHereafter you shall see Heaven opened, and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. Whence we may well collect, that the only means whereby God standing above, and his Israel lying here below are conjoined together, and the only ladder whereby Heaven may be scaled by us, is the Son of man, the type of whose flesh, the veil, was therefore commanded to beb made with Cherubims; to show that we comec to an innumerable company of Angels, when we come to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament: who as the Head of the Church hath power tod send forth all those ministering spirits, to minister for them who shall be Heirs of salvation.
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