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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.
27. Hence this Kingdom in the Scriptures is every where called the Kingdom of God, the kingdom of peace, and glory, in the places above cited: and the Kingdom of light and glory, the Kingdom of Heaven, and the world to come, Hebr. 2. 5.
27. Hence this Kingdome in the Scriptures is every where called the Kingdome of God, the kingdome of peace, and glory, in the places above cited: and the Kingdome of light and glory, the Kingdome of Heaven, and the world to come, Hebr. 2. 5.
28. And hence also it appeareth how necessary it was that Christ the Mediator should be God, and man: for unless he had bin God, he could not be the spiritual King of our souls, dispensing life and death eternal: and unless he had been man he could not have been an head of the same kind with his body.
28. And hence also it appeareth how necessary it was that Christ the Mediator should be God, and man: for unlesse he had bin God, he could not be the spirituall King of our soules, dispensing life and death eternall: and unlesse hee had been man he could not have been an head of the same kinde with his body.
29. Christ in all his offices had types: In the prophetical office he h•d men also so subordinate to himself that they also were called prophets: but his ⟨p. 87⟩