A25291:1368
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.
8. In both these respects, Christ before is said to be propounded before under a valid, but now to be offered with open and unveiled face. 2 Cor. 3. 12. We use great evidence in speaking; neither are we as Moses who put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not see to the end of that which now as unprofitable is taken away.
8. In both these respects, Christ before is said to be propounded before under a valid, but now to be offered with open and unvailed face. 2 Cor. 3. 12. We use great evidence in speaking; neither are we as Moses who put a vaile over his face, that the children of Israel could not see to the end of that which now as unprofitable is taken away.
9. Freedom doth consist in this. First, that the government of the Law, or mixing of the covenant of works, which did hold the ancient people-in a certain bondage, is now taken away: whence also the spirit of adoption, although it was never wholly denied to the faithful, yet most properly it is said to be communicated under this New Testament, in which the most perfect state of believers doth most clearly appear, Gal. 4. 5. After the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son—that we might receive the adoptions of sons, &c. Secondly, it consists in this, that the yoke of the ceremonial Law, as it was an handwriting against seers, as it did forbid the use of things in their nature indifferent, as it did command many burdensome observations of them, and as it did veil the truth it self with manifold and carnal ceremonies, is now wholly taken away, Col. 2. 14. 17. Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.