A25291:1162
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.
22. Hence also there is only one sense of one place ⟨p. 171⟩of Scripture: because otherwise the sense of the Scripture should be not only not clear and certain, but none at all: for that with doth not signify one thing, signifieth certainly nothing.
22. Hence also there is onely one sence of one place ⟨p. 171⟩of Scripture: because otherwise the sence of the Scripture should be not onely not cleere and certaine, but none at all: for that wich doth not signifie one thing, signifieth certainly nothing.
23. For the determining of controversies in Divinity, there is no visible power as it were kingly or praetorian, appointed in the Church: but there is laid a duty on men to enquire: there is bestowed a gift of discerning, both publicly and privately: and there is commanded a desire to further the knowledge and practise of the known truth according to their calling, unto which also is joined a promise of direction, and blessing from God.
23. For the determining of controversies in Divinity, there is no visible power as it were kingly or pretorian, appointed in the Church: but there is laid a duty on men to enquire: there is bestowed a gift of discerning, both publickly and privatly: and there is commanded a desire to further the knowledge and practise of the known truth according to their calling, unto which also is joyned a promise of direction, and blessing from God.