A25291:190
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.
Power is attributed to God actively, because he hath power to communicate something to others, such as is the power of the cause.
13. Potentia, vel potestas causae, A causing power yet ⟨p. 24⟩properly active power doth not agree to God, as if in respect of himself, he were first idle, and after did put himself forth into act: for God is a most pure Act. James 1. 17.
13. Potentia, vel potestas causae, A causing power yet ⟨p. 24⟩properly active power doth not agree to God, as if in respect of himselfe, he were first idle, and after did put himselfe forth into act: for God is a most pure Act. Iames 1. 17.
14. Therefore we must not imagine such an active power in God, which is a different thing from his Essence, for the very Essence of God is this power whereby he is powerful: As the same Essence is mercy it self, whereby he is merciful.
14. Therefore we must not imagine such an active power in God, which is a different thing from his Essence, for the very Essence of God is this power whereby he is powerfull: As the same Essence is mercy it selfe, whereby he is mercifull.