A25291:1230
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.
52. Admonition is the application of an argument to correct some viciousness.
52. Admonition is the application of an argument to correct some vitiousnesse.
53. In admonition, or dehortation from vice, there may be remedies adjoined out of those places which are most like to prevail against those vices.
53. In admonition, or dehortation from vice, there may be remedies adjoyned out of those places which are most like to prevaile against those vices.
54. The manner of working in all these must be such that it have no ostentation of humane wisdom, or an intermingling of carnal affections, but the demonstration of the spirit every where manifested. 1 Cor. 1. 17. &c. 2. 1. 4. 13. Not with skill of speaking, least the Cross of Christ should be made of none effect. Not with excellency of speech or wisdom: not in persuading words of mens wisdom, but in spiritual and powerful demonstration. Not in words which mans wisdom teacheth, but which the holy Spirit teacheth, for it is the word of the spirit, the word of life which is ⟨p. 181⟩preached to edification of God which is by Faith: unto which if any thing be not fitly spoken or done, it is as vain as hay and stubble. 1 Cor. 3. 12.