A25291:1695
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.
3. But the proper reason why we may not trust upon the Creatures, in that manner as we trust in God, is because the formal object of Hope is not fo•d in the Creatures. Psal. 146. 3. Trust not in Princes, nor in any son of man, in whom there is no salvation. For although some power of doing us good and helping us, is placed by God in the Creatures, yet the exercise of this virtue doth always depend upon God. Psal. 107. Sending his word he healed them. And Psal. 137. 1. Unless the Lord build the house, in vain they labour that build it, unless the Lord keep the City, the watchmen watcheth in vain.
3. But the proper reason why we may not trust upon the Creatures, in that manner as we trust in God, is because the formall object of Hope is not fo•d in the Creatures. Psal. 146. 3. Trust not in Princes, nor in any sonne of man, in whom there is no salvation. For although some power of doing us good and helping us, is placed by God in the Creatures, yet the exercise of this vertue doth alwayes depend upon God. Psal. 107. Sending his word he healed them. And Psal. 137. 1. Unlesse the Lord build the house, in vaine they labour that build it, unlesse the Lord keep the City, the watchmen watcheth in vaine.
4. Therefore when one saith, I hope this or that of such a man, doth either signify that he hopes for that from God by that Creature, or it sets forth a humane hope, not Divine, or finally it is not Christian.