A25291:1108
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.
10. The power is not absolute, but relative, that is, it doth not consist in an absolute power to do any ⟨p. 163⟩thing, but in a right, whereby one hath power to do that rightly and lawfully which he might not before so do, and therefore it is Potestas juris, a power of right.
10. The power is not absolute, but relative, that is, it doth not consist in an absolute power to doe any ⟨p. 163⟩thing, but in a right, whereby one hath power to doe that rightly and lawfully which he might not before so doe, and therefore it is Potestas juris, a power of right.
11. But it is of special right: because it respects some special duties unlawful to others, and it doth undertake some common duties in a certain special manner.
11. But it is of speciall right: because it respects som• speciall duties unlawfull to others, and it doth undertake some common duties in a certaine special manner.
12. The right of the Ministry depends upon calling, Heb. 5. 4. Neither doth any take this honour to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aron.
12. The right of the Ministery depends upon calling,