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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.
To the Reader.
These words explained are not intended for the learned, but for the unlearned, whereby they may come to the understanding of this book and others of the same nature, and the rather because many sentences may depend on the opening of a word.
These words explained are not intended for the learned, but for the unlearned, whereby they may come to the understanding of this booke and others of the same nature, and the rather because many sentences may depend on the opening of a word.
Synecdoche, A figure containing a part for the whole p. 3. Genuine distribution natural or proper division. p. 4. Metonymy a figure by which the cause is put for the effect, or the subject for the Adjunct or contrariwise, the effect for the cause. p. 5. Inaccessibile that cannot be gone unto. p. 10. Essence the beginning. p. 11. Consectaries, or conclusions. p. 12. Subsistence the manner of being. ibidem. Abstract the substantive as, whiteness. ibidem. Concrete the Adjective as white. ibidem. Imparity Inequality. ibidem. Equivocally Doubtful. p. 13. Analogically by way of Resemblance. ibidem. ⟨image 6⟩Numerical, Individual As one and the same thing not only in nature, but in number. p. 14. Dimension the measure of a thing. ibidem. Immensity greatness. p. 15. Relatives Respective. p. 17. Individuating Restraining or Limiting. ibidem. Procession Issuing. p. 19. Efficiency of God his working power. p. 21. Syllogism an argument. p. 23. Identity Sameness of a thing. p. 25. Termination the relation of a work to a particular person. p. 26. Analysis resolution. p. 28. Idea a form or image of a thing in a mans mind. ibidem. Quiddity the being of a thing. p. 29. Existence the actual being of a thing. ibidem. Contingent accidental. ibidem. Simple intelligence Gods absolute Knowledge. ibidem. Science is Knowledge. p. 30. Sapience is Wisdom. ibidem. Concomi panyng. p. 31. Antecedent going before. ibidem. Connection joining before. ibidem. Exist to have an actual being. p. 32. Passive attingency, that is the Efficacy of the will of God, upon one thing causing another thing. ibidem. Contingency by chance. p. 34. Metonymically by a figure, the cause for the effect, or the subjects for the quality, or contrary wise. p. 35. Formacy transient really passing. p. 36. Virtually that is in power. ibidem. Preexist to be before. ibidem. Entity the being of a thing. p. 38. Aggregation heaping up or joining together. ibidem. Incomplete Imperfect. p. 40.