A25291:732
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.
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, Luc. 22. 44. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. And his sweat was like drops of blood falling down to the ground.
13. There were two effects of this agony. First, a vehement deprecation shewing a mind astonished and a nature flying from the bitternesse of death, yet under condition, and with subjection to his Fathers will. Mar. 14. 35. He prayed that if it might be that houre might passe from him. Iohn 12. 27. My soule is troubled, and what shall I say? Father keepe me from this houre: but therefore came I unto this houre. Secondly, a watery sweat having clotters of blood mixed with it dropping downe to the ground, Luc. 22. 44. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. And his sweat was like drops of blood falling downe to the ground.
14. In this beginning of spiritual death there was a certain moderation, and mitigation, that in the mean while there might be place for those duties which were to be finished before his death, namely prayers, conferences, admonitions, answers.