A25291:1488
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.
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.
19. The adjuvant cause by moving is. 1. The dignity and majesty of God in it self to be observed. Deut. 31. 3. Ascribe ye greatness to our God. Psal. 29. 2. Give unto the Lord the glory of his name. 2. The kindness ⟨p. 219⟩of God toward us, in which respect we owe to him whatsoever is in us. 1 Cor. 6. 20. Know ye not that ye are not your own—which are Gods. Rom. 12. By the mercy of God, whence also it is, that our obedience is nothing else then thankfulness due to God, and it is rightly explained by Divines under that name. 3. The authority of God commanding, which hath universal and full dominion over us, James 4. 22. There is one Law-giver who can save and destroy. 4. The equity and profit of the things commanded, which do both agree with greatest reason,