A25291:824
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. This decree as it doth exist in the mind of God presupposing an act of the will is called fore knowledge: whence it comes to pass that fore-knowledge signifies as much sometime as Predestination, but less properly, Romans 11. 2. He hath not cast away his people whom he fore-knew.
13. This decree as it doth exist in the mind of God presupposing an act of the will is called fore knowledge: whence it comes to passe that fore-knowledge signifies as much sometime as Predestination, but lesse properly, Romans 11. 2. Hee hath not cast away his people whom hee fore-knew.
14. There is only one act of will in God properly, because all things in him are together, and nothing before ⟨p. 119⟩or after, and so there is only one decree about the end and means: but after our manner of conceiving, God in order of intention doth will the end before the means. Rom. 8. 30. Whom he hath predestinated, those he called: although in order of execution, he willeth the means first before their direction to the end. 2 Thess. 2. 13. He hath chosen us to salvation through sanctification, and faith.
14. There is only one act of will in God properly, because all things in him are together, and nothing before ⟨p. 119⟩or after, and so there is only one decree about the end and meanes: but after our manner of conceiving, God in order of intention doth will the end before the meanes.