A25291:315
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.
47. It is said to be without form; not because it had no form, but because it neither had beauty, and ⟨p. 41⟩ornament, nor a complete act of those forms which were afterwards to proceed out of it.
47. It is said to be without forme; not because it had no forme, but because it neither had beauty, and ⟨p. 41⟩ornament, nor a compleat act of those formes which were afterwards to proceed out of it.
48. In the constitution of the complete existence of things, two things are chiefly to be respected; Namely, the manner, and order.
48. In the constitution of the compleat existence of things, two things are chiefly to be respected; Namely, the manner, and order.
49. The manner of constitution contains four things. 1. The command of God producing every thing: Let be, or let this or that be done: wherein the power of God shines forth, that by his only word or will he did all things. Psal. 33. 9. Psal. 115. 3. 2. His approbation acknowledging the same thing brought forth as good, God saw that it was good. Hence the goodness of Cod shines forth, that he produced all things to a good end and use.