A25291:831
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.
20. The first act of election then is to will the glory of his grace in the salvation of some men. 2 Thessa. 2. 13. God hath chosen us from the beginning unto salvation.
20. The first act of election then is to will the glory of his grace in the salvation of some men. 2 Thessa. 2. 13. God hath chosed us from the beginning unto salvation.
21. The second act is to appoint some certain men who shall be made partakers of this salvation. 2. Tim. 2. 19. The Lord knoweth who are his.
21. The second act is to appoint some certaine men who shal be made partakers of this salvation. 2. Tim. 2. 19. The Lord knoweth who are his.
22. But the proper reason of election is in this second act, which act contains these three things in the conceiving of it, 1. Love. Rom. 9. 13. 2. Love with respect to a supernatural and chief good. Jer. 31. 3. Eph. 5. 25. 3. Love with a separating from others: in which comparative manner, there is contained a certain virtual intention of love. Rom. 9. 13.