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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
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When Jeremiah brought the Word of God to the Jews they said it was not the Word of the Lord, but he spake as Baruc the son of Neriah provoked him, Jer. 43. 2. and so some perhaps in these days are so ungodly as to take the Jews part against Jeremiah and all his fellows: How may it appear therefore that this Book which you call the Book of God, and the holy Scriptures is the Word of God indeed, and not mens policy?
When Jeremy brought the Word of God to the Jews they said it was not the Word of the Lord, but he spake as Baruc the son of Neriah provoked him, Jer. 43. 2. and so some perhaps in these days are so ungodly as to take the Jews part against Jeremy and all his fellowes: How may it appeare therefore that this Book which you call the Book of God, and the holy Scriptures is the Word of God indeed, and not mens policy?
By the consonant testimony of men in all ages from them that first knew these Penmen of the holy Ghost with their writings until our time;1 and reasons taken out of the Word themselves, agreeable to the quality of the writers; both which kind of arguments the holy Scriptures have as much and far more then any other writings; wherefore as it were extreme impudency to deny the works of Homer, of Plato, Virgil, Tully, Livy, Galen, &c. when as consent of all ages have reached & delivered them unto us, which also by the tongue, phrase, matter, and all other circumstances agreeable are confirmed to be the works of the same Authors whose they are testified to be; so it were more then brutish madness to doubt of the certain truth and authority of the holy Scriptures, which no less, but much more then any other writings for their Authors are testified and confirmed to be the sacred Word of the ever-living God; not only testified I say by the uniform witnesses of men in all ages, but also confirmed by such reasons taken out of the writings themselves, as do sufficiently argue the Spirit of God to be the Author of them; for we may learn out of the testimonies themselves as David did,