A25291:1428
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.
28. There are not a few, and those new Interpreters, who deny, that there is either any proper trope, or unusual predication, but they make it an improper and mystical predication.
28. There are not a few, and those new Interpreters, who deny, that there is either any proper trope, or unusuall predication, but they make it an improper and mysticall predication.
29. But no sufficient reason is brought why we may deny that there is a trope in the words: which may be thus demonstrated. If it be an improper or unusual ⟨p. 210⟩predication as they would have it, this unusual or improper way ought to be showed in some word: which if it be done, then of necessity it is that that word be some way translated from his natural signification and use: if that be so, the word takes the nature and definition of a trope.
29. But no sufficient reason is brought why we may deny that there is a trope in the words: which may be thus demonstrated. If it be an improper or unusuall ⟨p. 210⟩predication as they would have it, this unusuall or improper way ought to be shewed in some word: which if it be done, then of necessity it is that that word be some way translated from his naturall signification and use: if that be so, the word takes the nature and definition of a trope.
30. But the trope is neither in the Article going before, nor in the proper Copula, as in the word is; but in that which follows, that is, in the word body, for body is put for a sign of the body, not that a true and proper body is excluded out of that sentence, but rather included, by a relation, which the sign hath to the thing signified.