A25291:1318
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.
1. Although the free, and saving Covenant of God hath been only one from the beginning, yet the manner of the application of Christ or of administering this new Covenant, hath not always been one and the same, but divers, according to the ages in which the Church hath been gathered.
1. ALthough the free, and saving Covenant of God hath beene onely one from the beginning, yet the manner of the application of Christ or of administring this new Covenant, hath not alwayes beene one and the same, but divers, according to the ages in which the Church hath been gathered.
2. In this variety here hath been always a progress from the more imperfect, to the more perfect.
2. In this variety here hath beene alwayes a progresse from the more imperfect, to the more perfect.
3. First therefore the mystery of the Gospel was manifested generally and more darkly, and then more specially and more clearly.
3. First therefore the mystery of the Gospel was manifested generally and more darkly, and then more specially and more cleerly.