A25291:648
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.
2. Humiliation is that whereby he is subject to the justice of God, to perform all those things which were required to the redemption of man. Phil. 2. 8. Being found in shape as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death.
2. Humiliation is that whereby he is subject to the justice of God, to performe all those things which were required to the redemption of man. Phil. 2. 8. Being found in shape as a man, he humbled himselfe and became obedient unto death.
3. This humiliation was not properly of the Divine nature or person, considered in it self, but of the Mediator God-man.
3. This humiliation was not properly of the Divine nature or person, considered in it selfe, but of the Mediator God-man.
4. Therefore the taking of the humane nature, considered simply & in it self is not a part of this humiliation: because it was the action of God only: but that condition of a servant, which did accompany the taking of the Divine nature, was the prime and proper reason of the humiliation. Yet in respect of this condition, ⟨p. 90⟩by a relation redounding from thence, the Divine person is rightly said to be of no reputation. Phil. 2. 7. Because it did exist in that form, which for a time was void of all glory and Divine Majesty: for the Divine Majesty did suppress and hide it self throughout all that space of humiliation; that it did not constantly exercise that dignity which did afterward appear in the exaltation.