A25291:282
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.
14. The world neither was made from eternity, neither could be created from eternity, in that disposition, and order of things, which now it hath.
15. That day had not been, if infinite days ought to have gone before, for those days going before had never been ended, that that might succeed them.
15. That day had not been, if infinite dayes ought to have gone before, for those dayes going before had never been ended, that that might succeed them.
16. Hence also it followeth that no Creature was, or could be a cause either instrumental, or principal in the act of Creation.
16. Hence also it followeth that no Creature was, or could be a cause either instrumentall, or principall in the act of Creation.
17. Every thing created was very good, because it was made neither rashly, nor in vain, but unto the end which the Maker did attain unto.