A25291:278
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.
10. Indeed somethings are said to be created, whose matter did pre-exist: but then Creation respects not only that immediate action, whereby it comes to pass that such things are; but also a mediate action, whereby it comes to pass that the matter it self ⟨p. 37⟩should exist of which they are formed: so it was in the Creation of plants and living Creatures, Genes. 1. 20.
10. Indeede somethings are said to be created, whose matter did pre-exist: but then Creation respects not only that immediate action, whereby it comes to passe that such things are; but also a mediate action, whereby it comes to passe that the matter it selfe ⟨p. 37⟩should exist of which they are formed: so it was in the Creation of plants and living Creatures, Genes. 1. 20.
11. That nothing, or not being of things, did go before their being: not only in order of nature, for so they might co-exist with God from eternity: but also in order of duration, continuance, according to our manner of conceiving.
11. That nothing, or not being of things, did goe before their being: not only in order of nature, for so they might co-exist with God from externity: but also in order of duration, continuance, according to our manner of conceiving.