A25291:1001
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
The marrow of sacred divinity drawn out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latin ... ; whereunto are annexed certain tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.The marrow of sacred divinity drawne out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latine ... ; whereunto are annexed certaine tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Overton, 1642
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.
12. Hitherto pertains the assurance of perseverance and salvation also, Rom. 8. 38.
12. Hitherto pertaines the assurance of perseverance and salvation also, Rom. 8. 38.
13. For this assurance as touching the thing it self which is called a certainty of the object,. is sealed to all true believers: but as touching the perceiving of it, which is called a certainty of the subject, it is not always present to all; yet it may be gotten by any without special revelation, & it ought also to be sought for by all: so as this certain confidence rightly grounded hath nothing common with presumption.
13. For this assurance as touching the thing it selfe which is called a certainty of the object,. is sealed to all true believers: but as touching the perceiving of it, which is called a certainty of the subject, it is not alwayes present to all; yet it may bee gotten by any without speciall revelation, & it ought also to be sought for by all: so as this certaine confidence rightly grounded hath nothing common with presumption.
14. This certainty is grounded upon, and confirmed to the faithful by the word, the seals, by oath, and by the earnest of God himself. He. 6. 17. God willing abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, he bound it by an oath: that by two immutable things we may have strong consolation.