A25291:833
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.
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. John. 17. 6. 1. Cor. 1. 27. 28.
22. But the proper reason of election is in this second act, which act containes these three things in the conceaving of it, 1. Love. Rom. 9. 13. 2. Love with respect to a supernaturall and chiefe good. Ier. 31. 3. Eph. 5. 25. 3. Love with a separating from others: in which comparative manner, there is contained a certaine virtuall intention of love. Rom. 9. 13. Iohn. 17. 6. 1. Cor. 1. 27. 28.
23. The third act of election is a purpose or intention of preparing and directing those means by which men elected, are certainly lead through to salvation as to an end. But these means are properly redemption, and application of redemption, John 6. 37.