A25291:939
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.
18. Hence also the faithful are taken as it were into Gods Family, and are of his household. Gal. 6. 10. That is, that they may be always under the fatherly tuition of God, depending upon him, for nourishment, education, and perpetual conservation: as in old time among the Hebrews adoption of tentimes was no otherwise testified then by the nurturing and education, of their next kindred in blood. Hest. 2. 7.
18. Hence also the faithfull are taken as it were into Gods Family, and are of his houshold. Gal. 6. 10. That is, that they may be alwayes under the fatherly tuition of God, depending upon him, for nourishment, education, and perpetuall conservation: as in old time among the Hebrewes adoption of tentimes was no otherwise testified then by the nurturing and education, of their next kindred in blood. Hest. 2. 7.
19. Together with the dignity of sons there is joined also the condition of heirs, Rom. 8. 17. If sons, then also heirs: But this inheritance to which the faithful are adopted, is blessedness eternal: whence adoption doth sometimes in Scripture comprehend all that glory which is prepared for the faithful, and is expected by them in Heaven, Rom. 8. 23. Looking for our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
19. Together with the dignity of sons there is joyned also the condition of heires, Rom. 8. 17. If sons, then also heires: But this inheritance to which the faithfull are adopted, is blessednesse eternall: whence adoption doth sometimes in Scripture comprehend all that glory which is prepared for the faithfull, and is expected by them in Heaven,