A25291:416
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.
4. The Apostasy of Man is his Fall from obedience due to God, or transgression of the Law prescribed by God.
4. The Apostacy of Man is his Fall from obedience due to God, or transgression of the Law prescribed by God.
5. In this Fall two things are to be considered. 1. The committing of the transgression. 2. The propagation of it.
6. The committing of the transgression was accomplished in the eating of the forbidden Fruit, which was called the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil: but the first motion or degree of this disobedience, did necessarily go before that outward act of eating, so that it may be truly said that Man was a sinner, before he had finished that outward act of eating. Whence it is that the very desire which Eve was carried toward the forbidden Fruit, doth seem to be noted, as some degree of her sin. Gen. 3. 6. When the Woman saw, that the Fruit of the Tree was good for Meat, and most delightful to the Eyes, and the Fruit of the Tree to be desired to get knowledge, she took and eat.
6. The committing of the transgression was accomplished in the eating of the forbidden Fruit, which was called the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evill: but the first motion or degree of this disobedience, did necessarily goe before that outward act of eating, so that it may be truly said that Man was a sinner, before he had finished that outward act of eating. Wence it is that the very desire which Eve was caried toward the forbidden Fruit, doth seeme to be noted, as some degree of her sin.