A25291:131
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.
51. These qualities are conceived either under the reason of faculties or else of virtues, by which those faculties are adorned.
51. These qualities are conceived either under the reason of faculties or else of vertues, by which those faculties are adorned.
52. The faculties are understanding & will, whence Faith doth lean upon him, who knows what is needful for us, and is willing also to supply it.
52. The faculties are understanding & will, whence Faith doth leane upon him, who knowes what is needfull for us, and is willing also to supply it.
53. The understanding of God is simple without any composition, discourse or representation of shapes. Heb. 4. 13. All things are naked and open to his eyes.
54. The understanding of God is unchangeable: he knows not otherwise, nor more one thing then another, nor more before then now, or now then before.