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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.
3. The perfection and manifestation of this victory is in his Exaltation. Therefore although there was a virtual triumph, and triumph of merit in his death, and in the Cross, in which Christ is said to be exalted, or extolled. John 3. 14. Not in situation and place only, but also in virtue and merit: yet the actual triumph as touching the state of it, was not in his humiliation, but his Exaltation.
3. The perfection and manifestation of this victory is in his Exaltation. Therefore although there was a virtuall triumph, and triumph of merit in his death, and in the Crosse, in which Christ is said to be exalted, or extolled. Iohn 3. 14. Not in situation and place only, but also in vertue and merit: yet the actuall triumph as touching the state of it, was not in his humiliation, but his Exaltation.
4. Christ did triumph in the Cross, as in a Field of victory; but in his Exaltation, as in the kingly seat, and Chariot of triumph.
4. Christ did triumph in the Crosse, as in a Field of victory; but in his Exaltation, as in the kingly seat, and Chariot of triumph.
5. The glory of this triumph was, a changing of the humble form of a servant, and that most abject condition which in it he did undergo, into blessedness altogether Heavenly. Phil. 2. 9. Wherefore also God did highly exalt him, and gave him a name above every name.