A25291:1693
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.
1. Hope is a virtue, whereby we are inclined to expect those things which God hath promised us. Rom. 8. 25.
1. HOpe is a vertue, whereby we are inclined to expect those things which God hath promised us. Rom. 8. 25.
2. This Hope respecteth God. 1. As the object which it doth expect, for the principal object of Hope is God himself, and those acts whereby he is joined to ⟨p. 258⟩us, 1 Peter 1. 13. Hope in the grace which is brought to you. Hence God himself is called the Hope of Israel. Jer. 1. 4. 8. And Rom. 15. 13. The God of Hope: not so much because he is the Author and Giver of hope, as because it is he, upon whom we hope. 2. It respects God as the Author and Giver of all the good it doth expect. Psal. 37. 5. 6. Roll thy way upon the Lord, and trust in him, for he shall bring it to pass: For as, it tends unto God to attain good, so also it respects him as to be obtained by his own Grace. Jeremiah 17. 7. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
2. This Hope respecteth God. 1. As the object which it doth expect, for the principall object of Hope is God himselfe, and those acts whereby he is joyned to ⟨p. 258⟩