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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.
CHAPTER XXII.
Of the Death of Christ.
1. The Death of Christ is the last act of his humiliation, whereby he did undergo, extreme, horrible, and greatest pains for the sins of men.
1. THe Death of Christ is the last act of his humiliation, whereby he did undergoe, extreme, horrible, and greatest paines for the sins of men.
2. It was an act of Christ, and not a mere suffering, ⟨p. 100⟩because he did of purpose dispose himself to undergo and sustain it. John 10. 11. I am that good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep, Verse 11. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down by my self: by the same reason also it was voluntary, not compelled. And out of power, not out of infirmity only: out of obedience to his Father, and love to us, not out of his own guilt or desert: unto satisfaction by overcoming, not to perdition by yielding.