A25291:1238
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.
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.
61. The pronouncing of the speech must be both natural, familiar, clear, and distinct, that it may be fitly understood: as also agreeable unto the matter that it may also move the affections. Gal. 4. 20. I would now be present with you, and change my voice: because I am in doubt of you.
61. The pronouncing of the speech must be both naturall, familiar, cleere, and distinct, that it may be fitly understood: as also agreeable unto the matter that it may alsoo move the affections. Gal. 4. 20. I would now be present with you, and change my voyce: because I am in doubt of you.
62. Among others here are two voices most to be blamed: the one which is heavy, slow, singing, drowsy, in which not only the words in the same distinction, of a comma, are separated with a pause, but even the syllables in the same word, to the great hinderance of the understanding of things.