A69075:219
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Secondly, his omnipotency, that he made all by his word, that is, by his only will, who calleth things that are not as though they were.
Secondly, his omnipotencie, that he made all by his word, that is, by his only will, who calleth things that are not as though they were.
Thirdly, that he made not all at once and in a moment, but in six days and six nights.
Thirdly, that he made not all at once and in a moment, but in six daies and six nights.
Why did he work them in six days, which could have perfected all in a moment?
VVhy did hee worke them in six daies, which could haue perfected all in a moment?
First, because he would teach us the better to understand their workmanship, even as a man which will teach a child in the frame of a letter, will first teach him one line of the letter, and not the whole letter together. Secondly, that we might also by his example finish our work in six days.