A25291:1490
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.
20. The matter of obedience is that very thing which is commanded by God, and so is summarily contained in the Decalogue: for otherwise the Law of God should not be perfect.
21. Therefore the Law of God although in respect of the faithful ithee as it were abrogated, both in respect of the power of justifying which it bad in the state of integrity, and in respect of the condemning power which it had in the state of sin: yet it hath force and vigour, in respect of power to direct, and some power also it doth retain of condemning, because it reproves, •d condemns sin in the faithful themselves, although it cannot wholly condemn the faithful themselves, who are not under the Law, but under Grace.
21. Therefore the Law of God altough in respect of the faithfull ithee as it were abrogated, both in respect of the power of justifying which it bad in the state of integrity, and in respect of the condemning power which it had in the state of sinne: yet it hath force and vigor, in respect of power to direct, and some power also it doth retaine of condemning, because it reproves, •d condemnes sinne in the faithfull themselves, although it cannot wholy condemne the faithfull themselves, who are not under the Law, but under Grace.
22. The form of obedience is our conformity to the Will of God, therefore revealed, that it may be fulfilled by us Mich. 6. 8. He hath […] •ee O man, what is good.