A25291:355
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.
5. Yet in respect of those things upon which second causes have their influence by force of their own proper form, God is not said to work, immediately, but ⟨p. 46⟩mediately, because he worketh by the means of subjects and virtues of second causes:
5. Yet in respect of those things upon which second causes have their influence by force of their own proper forme, God is not said to worke, immediatly, but ⟨p. 46⟩mediatly, because he worketh by the meanes of subjects and virtues of second causes:
6. God therefore useth means, not for want of power, but through the abundance of his goodness: that namely he might communicate a certain dignity of working to his Creatures also, & in them might make his efficiency more perceivable. 1 Sam. 14. 7. Tis all one to Jehovah to save with many, or with few. Hence God doth often use those means, to produce the most noble effects, which of themselves, have no aptness to bring forth such effects. 1 Cor. 1. 27. 28. Amos 5. 9. 2. Chr. 24. 24. Also he doth often make the most fit means, ineffectual. Psal. 33. 16. & 127. 1. 2. Hos. 4. 10.