A25291:1236
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.
58. Neither also are unnecessary, and far fetched Proems, or persuasive words of Orators to be followed: neither must they love digressions, or excursions. They do savour an humane spirit, spend time, and shut out other things which would more edify.
58. Neither also are unnecessary, and far fetched Proems, or perswasive words of Orators to be followed: neither must they love digressions, or excusions. They doe savour an humane spirit, spend time, and shut out other things which would more edifie.
59. But if there be used any Exordium, pertaining to the present matter, that hath his proper place, either ⟨p. 182⟩in the declaration of the text or applying it to use.
60. The speech and action ought to be wholly spiritual flowing from the very heart, showing a man much conversant in exercises of piety who also hath before persuaded himself, and throughly settled in his conscience, those things which he endeavours to persuade others to: into which finally there is Zeal, Charity, Mildness, Freedom, Humility, whit grove authority.
60. The speech and action ought to be wholly spirituall flowing from the very heart, shewing a man much conversant in exercises of piety who also hath before persuaded himselfe, and troughly setled in his conscience, those things which he endeavours to perswade others to: into which finally there is Zeale, Charity, Mildnesse, Freedome, Humility, whit grove authority.