A25291:1489
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.
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, Rom. 2. 15. Their conscience together bearing witness, and also pertain to our perfection and blessedness. Deut. 32. 47. It is your Life. 5. The reward and promises by which obedience is persuaded. 2 Cor. 7. 1. Seeing we have these promises, let us purge our selves, &c. 6. The misery which they that do otherwise do incur, Deut. 28. 16. Heb. 12. 26. Cursed shalt thou be. For our God is a consuming fire.
19. The adjuvant cause by moving is. 1. The dignity and majesty of God in it selfe to be observed. Deut. 31. 3. Ascribe yee greatnesse to our God.