A25291:164
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.
15. The difference between (these two) to be begotten, which agrees to the Son, and to proceed, which is proper to the holy Ghost, cannot be explained by us in proper words, but that the Son proceeds from the Father alone, and the holy Ghost from the Father and the Son, making one relative together, Or making together one relation.
15. The difference betweene (these two) to be begotten, which agrees to the Sonne, and to proceed, which is proper to the holy Ghost, cannot be explained by us in proper words, but that the Sonne proceeds from the Father alone, and the holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne, making one relative together, Or making together one relation.
16. Yet it may, in part, be shadowed out in a similitude; namely the father is as it were, Deus intelligens, God understanding: the Son the express Image of the Father, is as it were Deus intellectus, God understood; the holy Spirit flowing and breathed from the Father by the Son, is as it were Deus dilectus, God beloved.
16. Yet it may, in part, be shadowed out in a similitude; namely the father is as it were, Deus intelligens, God understanding: the Sonne the expresse Image of the Father, is as it were Deus intellectus, God understood; the holy Spirit flowing and breathed from the Father by the Sonne, is as it were Deus dilectus, God beloved.
The Son is produced as it were by an act of understanding or speaking, from the understanding, or fruitful memory of the Father: the holy Spirit is produced by an act of loving or breathing from the fruitful will of the Father and the Sonne. Hence the Son is called the word, Wisdom, Image, which are not affirmed of the holy Ghost. But because in the Creatures there is found the generation of a son, but there is not any thing found which doth so immediately proceed from