Bishop Overall's convocation-book, MDCVI concerning the government of God's catholick church, and the kingdoms of the whole world.
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Bishop Overall's convocation-book, MDCVI concerning the government of God's catholick church, and the kingdoms of the whole world.
Author
Overall, John, 1560-1619.
Publication
London :: Printed for Walter Kettilby ...,
1690.
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Subject terms
Church of England -- Government.
Church polity -- Early works to 1800.
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"Bishop Overall's convocation-book, MDCVI concerning the government of God's catholick church, and the kingdoms of the whole world." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70760.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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LIB. I. CAP. I.
AMongst those Attributes, and Names of
God, which are common in the Scripture
to all the blessed Trinity, are these, To
be the Creator,and Governour of the World,
the Lord of lords,and King of kings, which
be there applied as well to the Son of God, our Lord
Jesus Christ, the second Person in the sacred Trinity, as
to God the Father, and God the Holy Ghost. Agree∣ably
whereunto, and not otherwise, our chief purpose
being to imitate the Scriptures, in setting out, and de∣scribing
the Deity, and Dignity of our Saviour Christ,
by his Almighty Power, and universal Government of
all the World, as Heir of all things, and Head of his
Church; we hold it fit to begin with his Divine Power
of Creation: and thereupon in the sense aforesaid do
affirm, That He in the beginning did create both Hea∣ven
and Earth; and that amongst the rest of the Crea∣tures,
which he then made, he Created our first Pa∣rents,
Adam and Eve, from whose Loins Mankind is
descended.