A69075:272
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.
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.
That the chiefe and speciall cause of the continuance of euery kinde of creatures to the worlds end, is this will & word of God: without the which, they, or sundrie of them, would haue perished ere this, by so many meanes as are to consume them.
What is the first creation of the compound bodies?
God having caused the waters to retire into their vessels the third night, in the third day, which followed that night, he clad the earth with grass for the use of beasts only, corn and trees for the use of man.
God hauing caused the waters to retire into their vessels the third night, in the third day, which followed that night, hee clad the earth with grasse for the vse of beasts only, corne and trees for the vse of man.
Seeing that the growth of these is from the influence of the heavenly bodies, how cometh it to pass that he first maketh the grass, corn, and trees, ere he made the heavenly bodies of the Sun, Moon, and Stars?