A25291:378
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.
Of special Gubernation about intelligent Creatures. In the former disputation common Gubernation was handled: now follows special Gubernation.
Of speciall Gubernation about intelligent Creatures. In the former disputation common Gubernation was handled: now followes speciall Gubernation.
1. Special Gubernation is that whereby God doth govern reasonable Creatures in a special manner.
1. SPeciall Gubernation is that whereby God doth governe reasonable Creatures in a speciall manner.
2. The special condition of those Creatures doth cause the difference. For seeing they are in some sort immortal, and created after the Image of God, and have an inward principle of their own actions proceeding from counsel, therefore they are to be governed to an eternal state of happiness or unhappiness, and that agreeably to counsel, and freedom.
2. The speciall condition of those Creatures doth cause the difference. For seeing they are in some sort immortall, and created after the Image of God, and have an inward principle of their own actions proceeding from counsell, therefore they are to be governed to an eternall state of happinesse or unhappinesse, and that agreeably to counsell, and freedome.