A25291:1219
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.
41. In practise of life there is direction, which consists of instruction and correction.
42. Instruction is a demonstration of that life that is to be followed.
42. Iustruction is a demonstration of that life that is to be followed.
43. Correction is a condemning of that life that is to be shunned.
44. After declaration, application ought to follow, which hath so great agreement with derivation of uses, that it may often be mingled with it.
45. To apply a doctrine to his use, is so to whet and put on some general truth with special accommodation; as it may pierce into the minds of such as are present, with a moving of godly affections.