A25291:1667
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.
25. The Objectum Quo, or formall object of Faith is the Trueness or faithfulness of God. Heb. 11. 11. Because he judged him faithful who had promised. For the formal, and as they say, the specificative reason of Faith is truth in speaking, that is, the Trueness, or faithfulness of God revealing something certainly, because it is a common respect of Faith that it leaves upon the authority of him that witnesseth, (in which thing Faith is distinguished from opinion, science, experience, and sight or sense) but the authority of God is his Trueness or faithfulness. Tit. 1. 2. God that cannot lie had promised. Hence that proposition is most true, what soever we are bound to believe (with a Divine Faith) is true. For because nothing ought so to believed, unless God do witness the truth there of: but God testifieth as he is true, but Trueness in a witness that knoweth all things, cannot be separated from the truth of the testimony; therefore it must needs be, that all that which we are bound to believe with a Divine Faith is true. This whole demonstration is manifestly confirmed and used by the Apostle Paul. 1 Cor. 15▪ 14, 15. If Christ be ⟨p. 254⟩not raised, our preaching is vain: your Faith also is vain; we are also found false witnesses of God: because we have witnessed of God, that he raised up Christ. That is, If the testimony be not true, the witness is false. Unless this be admitted, that whatsoever. God witnesseth is true, that consequence which is most firm, should avail nothing at all, God doth witness this or that, therefore it is true. Hence Divine Faith cannot be a principle or cause; either directly or indirectly, either by it self or by accident, of assenting to that which is false, or of a false assent.
25. The Objectum Quo, or formall object of Faith is the Truenes or faithfulnesse of God. Heb. 11. 11. Because he judged him faithfull who had promised. For the formall, and as they say, the specificative reason of Faith is truth in speaking, that is, the Truenes, or faithfulnesse of God revealing something certainly, because it is a common respect of Faith that it leaves upon the authority of him that witnesseth, (in which thing Faith is distinguished from opinion, science, experience, and sight or sence) but the authority of God is his Truenes or faithfulnesse.