A25291:721
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. 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.
2. It was an act of Christ, and not a meere suffering, ⟨p. 100⟩because he did of purpose dispose himselfe to undergoe and sustaine it. Iohn 10. 11. I am that good shepheard: the good shepheard layes downe his life for his sheepe, Verse 11. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it downe by my selfe: 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 owne guilt or desert: unto satisfaction by overcomming, not to perdition by yeelding.
3. It did contain greatest punishments: because it did equal all that misery which the sins of men did deserve. Hence is that plenty of words & phrases, by which this death is set forth in Scriptures. For it is not simply called a death, but also a cutting off, a casting away, a treading under feet, a curse, an heaping up of sorrows, and such like. Isay. 53. Psal. 22.