A25291:252
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.
41. Also the willing of one thing in God, is not properly a cause effecting that he will another thing in himself, because the Efficiency of a cause upon an effect, and dependence of the effect upon a cause, cannot be in the Will of God, which is God himself, truly and simply willing all things together and at once, with one only act; yet it is true that the Schoolmen say, that a passive attingency of the Divine will in respect of one thing, is a cause of a passive attingency in respect of another: and so in this sense it is truly and piously said, that God willeth some one thing, because he willeth another.
41. Also the willing of one thing in God, is not properly a cause effecting that he will another thing in himselfe, because the Efficiency of a cause upon an effect, and dependance of the effect upon a cause, cannot be in the Will of God, which is God himselfe, truly and simply willing all things together and at once, with one onely act; yet it is true that the Schoolemen say, that a passive attingency of the Divine will in respect of one thing, is a cause of a passive attingency in respect of another: and so in this sence it is truly and piously said, that God willeth some one thing, because he willeth another.
42. Therefore although he willeth many things which will not follow but upon some antecedent act of the Creature, yet the very act of willing in God doth ⟨p. 33⟩not properly depend as a consequent thing upon the act of the Creature. Neither is it lawful under the appellation of an Antecedent will, to give unto God that imperfect will which is called Velleitas, a woulding in the Schools. For it doth not agree to an Omniscient, Omnipotent, and infinitely, blessed Nature.
42. Therefore although he willeth many things which will not follow but upon some antecedent act of the Creature, yet the very act of willing in God doth ⟨p. 33⟩