A25291:83
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.
4. Because those things that pertain to God are necessarily explained after an humane manner: hence is that manner of speaking frequent in these matters which is called [Greek or Hebrew]. I. E•. figure that attributes those things to God which be proper to men, as in humane affections senses or members.
4. Because those things that pertaine to God are necessarily explained after an humane manner: hence is th•t manner of speaking frequent in these matters which is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. I. E•. figure that attributes those things to God which bee proper to men, as in humane affections senses or members.
5. Because also they are explained after our measure, to mans capacity, hence many things are spoken of God according to the way of our conceiving, rather then from his Nature.
6. We cannot know him otherwise, so as yet to live: neither have we need to know him otherwise that we may live well, Exod. 33, 19, 20.