A25291:166
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.
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 ⟨p. 19⟩two equally perfect (as the holy Spirit proceedeth from the Father, and the Son) therefore the procession of the Son is properly designed, noted, or set down in Scripture: but neither is a special manner of proceeding, nor special name absolutely proper given to the third person. For it is truly said of the Father and the Son, that they are spirits, and holy, and the Son also proceedeth from the Father by spiritual generation.
The Sonne is produced as it were by an act of understanding or speaking, from the understanding, or fruitfull memory of the Father: the holy Spirit is produced by an act of loving or breathing from the fruitfull will of the Father and the Sonne. Hence the Sonne is called the word, Wisdome, Image, which are not affirmed of the holy Ghost. But because in the Creatures there is found the generation of a sonne, but there is not any thing found which doth so immediately procced from ⟨p. 19⟩two equally perfect (as the holy Spirit proceedeth from the Father, and the Sonne) therefore the procession of the Sonne is properly designed, noted, or set downe in Scripture: but neither is a speciall manner of proceeding, nor speciall name absolutly proper given to the third person. For it is truly said of the Father and the Sonne, that they are spirits, and holy, and the Sonne also proceedeth from the Father by spirituall generation.
17. The proper name of God, with his proper titles, is given in Scripture, not only to the Father, but also to the Sonne.