A69075:270
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.
To have power and virtue given them to bring forth the like unto themselves for the continuance of their kind, is generally given to all those that are expressed in the creation here, albeit there be creatures, as stones and minerals, that bring not forth the like. And this blessing of multiplication is principal in the things that have the life of sense, beside the ⟨p. 22⟩life of increase. And therefore the Lord is brought in to speak to them in the second person: which he did not to the gross corn and trees, Gen. 1.22.
To haue power and vertue giuen them to bring foorth the like vnto themselues for the continuance of their kinde, is generally giuen to all those that are expressed in the creation here, albeit there be creatures, as stones and minerals, that bring not forth the like. And this blessing of multiplication is principall in the things that haue the life of sense, beside the ⟨p. 22⟩life of increase. And therefore the Lord is brought in to speake to them in the second person: which he did not to the grosse corne and trees, Gen. 1.22.
What learn you from hence?
What learne you from hence?
That the chief and special cause of the continuance of every kind of creatures to the worlds end, is this will & word of God: without the which, they, or sundry of them, would have perished ere this, by so many means as are to consume them.