A69076:270
A treatise of Christian religion
A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity. By T.C.A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole bodie and substance of diunintie. By T.C.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1616
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.
Q. What are the visible and corporal things?
Q. What are the visible and corporall things?
A. Two, first the mass or matter of the world, made (as is probable) the first night, wherein all things were contained, and mingled one in another. And secondly, the beautiful frame thereof, which he made the rest of the six days and nights.
A. Two, first the masse or matter of the world, made (as is probable) the first night, wherin all things were contained, and mingled one in another. And secondly, the beautifull frame thereof, which he made the rest of the six daies and nights.
Q. What are the parts of that mass?
Q. What are the parts of that masse?
A. Heaven and earth (as it were) the centre and circumference: for as the Arch-builders first shadow out (in a plot) the building they intend; and as the Painters draw certain gross lineaments of that picture, which they will after set forth, and fill up with orient colours: so the Lord our God (in this stately building, and cunning painting of the frame of the world) hath, before the most beautiful frame, set out (as it were) a shadow, and a common draught thereof.