A25291:143
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.
63. A virtue is the perfection of the understanding and will, such as is wisdom, holiness, and the like in God.
63. A vertue is the perfection of the understanding and will, such as is wisdome, holinesse, and the like in God.
64. Virtue is attributed to God, as it notes a readiness of doing: not under the respect of an habit distinct from faculty and act.
64. Virtue is attributed to God, as it notes a readinesse of doing: not under the respect of an habit distinct from faculty and act.
65. But the virtues which in man arise from occasion of sin and imperfection, do not agree to God, as humility, chastity, shamefastness, and the like.
65. But the vertues which in man arise from occasion of sinne and imperfection, doe not agree to God, as humility, chastity, shamefastnes, and the like.