A25291:1513
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.
1. There be two parts of obedience. Virtue, and the action of Virtue. 2. Pet. 1. 5. Ad to your Faith Virtue, &c. For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1. THere be two parts of obedience. Vertue, and the action of Vertue. 2. Pet. 1. 5. Ad to your Faith Vertue, &c. For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you that yee shall neither be barren nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ.
2. This distribution is of the whole into members▪ for these two are in their own nature joined together, and do make one and the same obedience.
2. This distribution is of the whole into members▪ for these two are in their own nature joyned together, and doe make one and the same obedience.
3. Hence both virtues and their actions are set forth by the same name, and are explained also by the same definition, because they are altogether of the same nature: even as arguments of Logic, are of the same name and nature, whether they be considered alone and by themselves, or in Axioms, and Syllogisms.
3. Hence both vertues and their actions are set forth by the same name, and are explained also by the same definition, because they are altogether of the same nature: even as arguments of Logicke, are of the same name and nature, whether they be considered alone and by themselves, or in Axioms, and Syllogismes.