A25291:731
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.
12. In this manner was the soul of Christ affected not only in that part which some call the inferior, but also in the superior part: not only nor chiefly out of a fellow-feeling which it had with the body, put properly and immediately: not chiefly out of compassion which it had in respect of others, but out of a proper suffering, which it did undergo in our name. Lastly, not out of an horror of temporal death, which many ⟨p. 102⟩of Christs servants also have by his power overcome, but out of a certain sense of a supernatural and spiritual death.
12. In this manner was the soule of Christ affected not only in that part which some call the inferior, but also in the superior part: not only nor chiefly out of a fellow-feeling which it had with the body, put properly and immediatly: not chiefly out of compassion which it had in respect of others, but out of a proper suffering, which it did undergoe in our name. Lastly, not out of an horror of temporall death, which many ⟨p. 102⟩of Christs servants also have by his power overcome, but out of a certaine sence of a supernaturall and spirituall death.
13. There were two effects of this agony. First, a vehement deprecation showing a mind astonished and a nature flying from the bitterness of death, yet under condition, and with subjection to his Fathers will. Mar. 14. 35. He prayed that if it might be that hour might pass from him. John 12. 27. My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father keep me from this hour: but therefore came I unto this hour. Secondly, a watery sweat having clotters of blood mixed with it dropping down to the ground,