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A25291	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.; Medulla theologica. English. 1642	Ames, William, 1576-1633.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3000; ESTC R23182	239,577	422

of Israel in Faith Psal. 37. 5. Rolle thy way upon Iehova and trust in him Ierem. 17. 7. Blessed is the man who trusteth in Iehova and whose confidence Iehova is 2. To believe commonly signifies an act of the understanding yeelding assent to testimony but because the will is wont to be moved thereupon and to stretch forth it selfe to embrace the good so allowed therefore Faith doth aptly enough set forth this act of the will also in which manner it is necessarily understood in this place For it is a receiving Iohn 1. 12. As many as received him who believe 3. Hence Faith is caried unto that good which by it is made ours is an act of election an act of the whole man which things doe in no wise agree to an act of the understanding Iohn 6. 35. He that commeth to me he that believeth in mee 4. Therefore although Faith alwayes presuppose a knowledge of the Gospell yet there is no saving knowledge in any and which differs from that which is found in some that shall not be saved but what followes this act of the will and depends upon it Iohn 7. 17. 8. 31. 32. 1. Iohn 2. 3. 5. That truly Christian Faith which hath place in the understanding doth alwayes leane upon a Divine testimony as it in Divine yet this testimony cannot be received without a pious affection of the will towards God Iohn 3. 33. He that receiveth his testimony hath sealed that God is true Rom. 4. 20. He was strengthened in Faith giving glory to God 6. Neither yet because it is grounded only upon a testimony is it the more uncertaine and doubtfull but more certaine in its own nature then any humane science because it is caried to its object under a formall respect of infallibility although by reason of the imperfection of the habit whence Faith flowes the assent of Faith in this or that subject oft-times appeares weaker then the assent of science 7. Now God is the object of Faith not as he is considered in himselfe but as we by him doe live well 1. Tim 4. 10. We hope in the living God who is the preserver of all men especially of those that believe 8. Christ as Redeemer is the mediate object of Faith but not the highest for we believe in God through Christ. Rom. 6. 11 to live to God by Christ. 2. Cor. 3. 4. we have trust through Christ to God-ward 1. Pet. 1. 21. Through him believing in God 9. The sentences in the Scriptures or promises doe containe and present an object of Faith and they are called the object of Faith by a Metonimy of the adjunct●… The good which is propounded to be obtained as it is such is the end and effect of Faith not properly the object it selfe But that upon whose power we rest in the obtaining of that good is the proper object of Faith 1. Cor. 1. 23. We preach Christ and 2. 2. I determined to know nothing among you but Iesus Christ 2. Cor. 5. 19. God in Christ. 10. With this Divine Faith which looketh to the will of Cod and our own salvation we must not simply believe any man but God above Rom. 3. 4. Every man is a lyar 1. Cor. 2 5. that your faith consist not in the wisdome of men 11. Therefore the Authority of God is the proper and immediate ground of all truth in this manner to be believed whence is that solemne speech of the Prophets every where the Word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord. 12. Hence the last resolution of Faith as it sets forth a thing to be believed is into the authority of God or Divine revelation 2. Pet. 1. 20 21. If ye first know this that no prophety of Scripture is of private interpretation c. Iohn 2. 29. We know that God spake to Moses As the last resolution of it as it notes the act of believing is into the operation and inward perswasion of the Holy Spirit 1. Cor. 12. 3. 11. That none can call Iesus Lord but by the Holy Spirit 13. This Faith whereby we believe not only a God or give credit to God but believe in God is true and proper confidence not as by this word is set forth a certaine and absolute perswasion of good to come but as it signifies chusing and apprehending of a sufficient and fit meanes and such wherein such a perswasion and expectation is founded In which sence men are said to put confidence in their wisdome power friends and riches Psa. 78. 2. They believed not in God nor trusted in his salvation 14. This is every where declared in those phrases of Scripture wherein the true nature of solid Faith is unfolded 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To lean upon as Isay 10. 20. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pro. 3. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isa. 50. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pro. 3. 5. Isa. 50. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal. 71. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 10. 11. 15. Therefore to beleeve in God is in believing to cleave to God to leane on God to rest in God as in our all-sufficient life and salvation Deut. 30 20. by cleaving to him for he is thy life 16. Hence that generall assent which the Papists make to be Faith is not Faith because by their own consession it may be without any life Iames 2 17. 17. But that speciall assent whereby we resolve that God is our God in Christ is not the first act of Faith but an act flowing from Faith for there is no greater certainty of this truth in thee then in another nor a truer apprehension of it in thee then another before thou hast specially applied thy selfe to God by Faith Rom. 5. 1 2. Being justified by Faith we have peace toward God we glory in God 18. Seeing also that Faith is the first act of life whereby we live to God in Christ it must needs consist in union with God which an assent given to the truth concerning God can in no wise doe 19. Further also seeing he that is about to believe out of a sense of his misery and defect of any deliverance either in himselfe or in others must needs cast himselfe upon God in Christ as a sufficient and faithfull Saviour he cannot in any measure so cast himselfe by an assent of the understanding but by a consent of the will 20. Although in Scriptures sometimes an assent to the truth which is touching God and Christ Iohn 1. 50. is accounted for true Faith yet there is a speciall confidence alwayes included and so in all places where there is speech of saving faith either a confidence in the Messiah is presupposed and there is only declared a determination or application of it to the person of Christ or by that assent confidence is set forth as an effect by its cause Iohn 11. 25 26. He that believes in me shall live believest thou this He saith yea Lord I believe that thou art

39. My Father if it be possible let this Cup passe from me 9. But the object of this anger was Christ not absolutly but only as touching the punishment which is brought by this anger which he as our surety did undergoe 10. That subjection to the power of darkenesse was not to bondage but to vexation which Christ did feele in his mind 11. From these the soule of Christ was affected with sorrow griefe feare and horror in an agony Mat. 26. 39. Iohn 11. 27. Hebr. 5. 7. Luc. 22. 24. 12. In this manner was the soule of Christ affected not only in that part which some call the inferior but also in the superior part not only nor chiefly out of a fellow-feeling which it had with the body put properly and immediatly not chiefly out of compassion which it had in respect of others but out of a proper suffering which it did undergoe in our name Lastly not out of an horror of temporall death which many of Christs servants also have by his power overcome but out of a certaine sence of a supernaturall and spirituall death 13. There were two effects of this agony First a vehement deprecation shewing a mind astonished and a nature flying from the bitternesse of death yet under condition and with subjection to his Fathers will Mar. 14. 35. He prayed that if it might be that houre might passe from him Iohn 12. 27. My soule is troubled and what shall I say Father keepe me from this houre but therefore came I unto this houre Secondly a watery sweat having clotters of blood mixed with it dropping downe to the ground Luc. 22. 44. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly And his sweat was like drops of blood falling downe to the ground 14. In this beginning of spirituall death there was a certaine moderation and mitigation that in the meane while there might be place for those duties which were to be finished before his death namely prayers conferences admonitions answeres 15. This moderation was inward or outward 16. The inward was by spaces of time upon the flacking of the pressure and vexation which he did feele in his soule Hence in his understanding he did attend unto the course of his office undertaken to the gl●…ry that would thence arise to his Father and to himselfe and to the salvation of those whom his Father had given to him In his will also hee did chuse and embrace all the miseries of death to obtaine those ends 17. The outward mitigation of this death was by an Angell who did strengthen him in talking with him Luc. 22. 43. And appeared to him an Angell from Heaven comforting him 18. There was no inward beginning of the bodily death of Christ besides that naturall mortality and weakening which the outward force did bring 19. The externall beginning was manifold both in matter of losse and matter of sence 20. In matter of losse he was rejected of his own people counted worse then a murtherer forsaken of his most inward Disciples denied and betrayed of all kind of men especially of the chiefe ones and those who were counted the more wise he was called a mad man a deceiver a blasphemer one having a devill a great man and invader of another mans kingdome he was stripped of his garments and destitute of necessary food 21. In matter of sence there was First shamefull apprehending Secondly a violent taking away in just judgements both Ecclesiasticall and civill Fourthly in working whipping and crucifying with reproches and injuries of all kinds joyned with them Yet there was some mitigation of this death First by manifestation of the Divine Majesty to the working of certaine miracles as in casting the Souldiers downe to the ground with his sight and voyce and in healing the eare of Malchus Secondly by operation of the Divine providence whereby it came to passe that he was justified by the Iudge before he was condemned Mat. 29. 24. I am innocent of the blood of this just man 22. The consummation of the Death of Christ was in the highest degree of the punishment appointed where is to be considered The death it selfe and the continuance of it 23. The consummation of spirituall death in matter of losse was that forsaking of the Father whereby he was deprived of all sence of consolation Mat. 27. 46. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me 24. The consummation of the death of Christ in matter of sence was the curse whereby he did endure the full sense of Gods judgement upon mans sinne Gal. 3. 13. He was made a curse for us The hanging on the Crosse was not a cause and reason of this curse but a signe and symbole of it Ibid. 25. The consummation of bodily death was in the breathing out of his soule with greatest torment and paine of the body 26. In this death there was a separation made of the soule from the body but the union of both did remaine with the Divine nature so that a dissolution of the person did not follow 27. This death of Christ was true not feigned it was naturall or from causes naturally working to bring it not supernaturall it was voluntary not altogether compelled yet it was violent not of inward principles It was also in a certaine manner supernaturall and miraculous because Christ did keepe his life and strength so long as he would and when he would he layd it down Iohn 10. 18. 28. The continuance of this death was in respect of the state of lowest humiliation not in respect of the punishment of affliction for that which Christ said it is finished is understood of those punishments 29. The continuance was the remaining under the dominion of death by the space of three dayes Acts 2. 24. This state is wont properly to bee set forth by descending into Hell 30. Christ being buried three dayes was a witnesse and certaine representation of this state CHAPTER XXIII Of the Exaltation of Christ. 1. THe Exaltation of Christ is that whereby he did gloriously triumph over his and our enemies Luc. 24. 26. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so to enter into glory Eph. 4. 8. When he ascended up on high he led captivity captive Col. 2. 15. He hath spoiled principalities and powers and hath made a shew of them openly and hath triumphed over them in it 2. He overcame death by enduring it sinne by satisfying the Devill by spoiling him or taking the prey out of his hands 3. The perfection and manifestation of this victory is in his Exaltation Therefore although there was a virtuall triumph and triumph of merit in his death and in the Crosse in which Christ is said to be exalted or extolled Iohn 3. 14. Not in situation and place only but also in vertue and merit yet the actuall triumph as touching the state of it was not in his humiliation but his Exaltation 4. Christ did triumph in the Crosse as in a Field of victory but in his Exaltation