A25291:1369
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.
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.
9. Freedome doth consist in this. First, that the government of the Law, or mixing of the covenant of workes, which did hold the ancient people-in a certaine bondage, is now taken away: whence also the spirit of adoption, although it was never wholy denyed to the faithfull, yet most properly it is said to be communicated under this New Testament, in which the most perfect state of believers doth most cleerly appeare, Gal. 4. 5. After the fulnesse 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 ceremoniall Law, as it was an handwriting against s•ers, 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 vaile the truth it selfe with manifold and carnall ceremonies, is now wholy taken away, Col. 2. 14. 17. Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.