A25291:582
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.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Of the Person of Christ, the Mediator. After the Fall of Man: it follows that we see his restoring.
Of the Person of Christ, the Mediator. After the Fall of Man: it followes that wee see his restoring.
1. The restoring of man is the lifting him up from an estate of sin and death, unto an estate of grace, and life.
1. THe restoring of man is the lifting him up from an estate of sinne and death, unto an estate of grace, and life.
2. The cause of this restoring was the merciful purpose of God. Eph. 1. 9. According to his free good will which he had purposed in himself. For there was nothing in man, which could confer any force to procure this restoring: but rather much which made to the contrary, as sin, in which there was an enmity against God: which in that respect doth commend this love of God towards us.