A25291:1487
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.
17. For nothing can be performed by man, since sin is entered, acceptable to God, as it comes from him, or as a work of spiritual life: unless, it be performed in Christ by Faith and the grace of sanctification. John 15. 4, 5. Without me ye can do nothing.
17. For nothing can be performed by man, since sinne is entred, acceptable to God, as it comes from him, or as a worke of spirituall life: unlesse, it be performed in Christ by Faith and the grace of sanctification. Iohn 15. 4, 5. Without mee yee can doe nothing.
18. Yet these duties are not therefore to be omitted by a man that doth not yet believe; because they are in themselves good, they hinder the increase of sin and punishments of sinners, nay they are often recompensed with divers benefits from God, although […] by force of any determined Law, but by a certain abundant and secret kindness of him.
18. Yet these duties are not therefore to be omitted by a man that doth not yet believe; because they are in themselves good, they hinder the increase of sinne and punishments of sinners, nay they are often reconpensed with divers benefits from God, although 〈…〉 by force of any determined Law, but by a certaine abundant and secret kindnesse of him.