A25291:1148
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.
8. Hence also, although in the inscriptions of the holy Books it is for the most part declared by whose labour they were written, yet there is sometimes deep silence of this matter, and that without any detriment of such books, or lessening their authority.
8. Hence also, although in the inscriptions of the holy Bookes it is for the most part declared by whose labour they were written, yet there is sometimes deepe silence of this matter, and that without any detriment of such bookes, or lessening their authority.
9. Neither yet doth it suffice to make a part of holy writ, if a book be written by some extraordinary servant of God, and upon certain direction of the spirit: unless it be also publicly given to the Church by divine authority, and sanctified to be a Canon or rule of the same.
9. Neither yet doth it suffice to make a part of holy writ, if a booke be written by some extraordinary servant of God, and upon certaine direction of the spirit: unlesse it be also publickly given to the Church by divine authority, and sanctified to be a Canon or rule of the same.
10. The thing it self which they committed to writing, as touching the sum and chief end of the ⟨p. 169⟩matter, is nothing else, then that reveal will of God, which is the rule of Faith and manners.
10. The thing it selfe which they committed to writing, as touching the summe and chiefe end of the ⟨p. 169⟩