A25291:213
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.
2. The Decree of God is his determinate purpose of effecting all things by his almighty Power, and according to his counsel, Eph. 1. 11. He doth all things according to the counsel of his own will.
2. The Decree of God is his determinate purpose of effecting all things by his almighty Power, and according to his counsell, Eph. 1. 11. He doth all things according to the counsell of his own will.
3. In the Decree of God there appeareth his constancy, truth, and faithfulness.
3. In the Decree of God there appeareth his constancy, truth, and faithfulnesse.
4. Constancy is that whereby the Decree of God remains always immutable, Num. 23. 23. The strong God is not a man that he should lie, or the Son of man that he should repent, Prov. 19. 21. The Counsel of the Lord it shall stand.
4. Constancy is that whereby the Decree of God remaines alwayes immutable, Num. 23. 23. The strong God is not a man that he should ly, or the Sonne of man that he should repent,