A25291:198
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.
20. The ordinate power of God is that whereby he not only can do that which he will, but also in very deed doth actually do, whatsoever he will. Psal. 115. 3. & 135. 6. Eph. 3. 11.
20. The ordinate power of God is that whereby he not only can doe that which he will, but also in very deed doth actually doe, whatsoever he will. Psal. 115. 3. & 135. 6. Eph. 3. 11.
21. The manner of Gods subsistence which shines ⟨p. 25⟩forth in his Efficiency is first, the co-working of all persons; secondly, the distinct manner of the persons in working.
22. Their co-working is, that whereby they do inseparably work the same thing: for all external actions are common to all the persons, John 5. 17, 19. My Father worketh, and I work. Whatsoever he doth, the same likewise doth the Son. and 16. 13, 14. That spirit shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, he shall speak. He shall take of mine, and give it to you.