A25291:758
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.
7. The humane nature received all those perfections, which a created nature could take. For in the soul there flourished all kind of fullness of wisdom and grace, not only in respect of the principle and habit, but also in respect of the act and exercise: his body also was adorned with greatest purity, agility, splendour, ⟨p. 106⟩and strength. Hebr. 12. 2. For the joy that was set before him, he endured the Cross, Phil. 3. 21. Who shall transform our vile body, that it may be life to his glorious body.
7. The humane nature received all those perfections, which a created nature could take. For in the soule there flourished all kind of fulnesse of wisdome and grace, not only in respect of the principle and habit, but also in respect of the act and exercise: his body also was adozned with greatest purity, agility, splendor, ⟨p. 106⟩and strength. Hebr. 12. 2. For the joy that was set before him, he endured the Crosse, Phil. 3. 21. Who shall transforme our vile body, that it may be life to his glorious body.
8. But as the soul of Christ being now exalted, did still retain the nature of a soul, so also the body glorified did in no wise lay down the essence, and essential properties of a body: therefore it can neither be every where, nor together in many places, nor in the same place with an other body Penetrative. Which indeed all that have eyes to see may clearly perceive in those phrases of Scripture. Being taken from them he was carried up into Heaven.