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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.
20. Circumcision was the Seal of the Covenant of God.
20. Circumcision was the Seale of the Covenant of God.
21. Offering was a presenting and dedicating the first born unto God: therefore Christ was fitly both circumcised and offered, because he was to confirm that saving Covenant by his blood, and among the first borne, he was only perfectly holy to God, of whom all others were only types.
21. Offering was a presenting and dedicating the first born unto God: therefore Christ was fitly both circumcised and offered, because hee was to confirme that saving Covenant by his blood, and among the first borne, hee was onely perfectly holy to God, of whom all others were only types.
22. His flight into Egypt, and his return thence, was, 1. That he might show from the beginning of his age, that he was borne to undergo misery. 2. That according to the condition to which he had submitted himself, he might provide for his life after the manner of men. 3. That he might withal show, that he was the man, that should bring us out of spiritual Egypt into the promised Land.
22. His flight into Egypt, and his returne thence, was, 1. That he migt shew from the beginning of his age, that he was borne to undergoe misery. 2. That according to the condition to which he had submitted himselfe, he might provide for his life after the manner of men. 3. That he might withal shew, that he was the man, that should bring us out of spirituall Egypt into the promised Land.