A25291:1149
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.
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⟩matter, is nothing else, then that reveale will of God, which is the rule of Faith and manners.
11. Hence all those things which in the first disputation were spoken of the doctrine of life revealed from God, do properly agree to the holy Scripture. For the Scripture is nothing else then that doctrine, with the manner of writing joined to it, which manner was not to be handled there, but in this place.