A25291:474
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.
30. By the life of man is understood, both the conjunction of the soul with the body, and all that perfection, which was agreeable to man in that state, whether it was actually communicated, or to be communicated upon condition. Psalm 36. 10. With thee is the Fountain of life, in thy light we shall enjoy light.
30. By the life of man is understood, both the conjunction of the soule with the body, and all that perfection, which was agreeable to man in that state, whether it was actually communicated, or to be communicated upon condition. Psalme 36. 10. With thee is the Fountaine of life, in thy light wee shall enjoy light.
31. Therefore Death is not from God, as he did ordain nature, but it is from God, as taking vengeance on Sin; and so properly from Sin, as the meritorious and procuring cause.
31. Therefore Death is not from God, as he did ordaine nature, but it is from God, as taking vengeance on Sinne; and so properly from Sinne, as the meritorious and procuring cause.
32. But that Death is not a simple, and bare privation of life, but joined with subjection to misery: and therefore is not the annihilating of the Sinner, whereby the subject of misery being taken away, the misery it self should be taken away.
32. But that Death is not a simple, and bare privation of life, but joyned with subjection to misery: and therefore is not the annihilating of the Sinner, whereby the subject of misery being taken away, the misery it selfe should be taken away.