A25291:1515
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.
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.
4. Virtue is an habit whereby the will is inclined to do well.
4. Vertue is an habit whereby the will is inclined to doe well.
5. It is called an habit, not as it is distinguished from disposition, and signifieth a confirmed and perfect constitution ⟨p. 224⟩of mind: for such a degree of virtue is scarce granted to men, while they live here: but generally, as it contains both a perfect and also imperfect degree of Virtue, and state of the mind.
5. It is called an habit, not as it is distinguished from disposition, and signifieth a confirmed and perfect constitution ⟨p. 224⟩of mind: for such a degree of vertue is scarce granted to men, while they live heere: but generally, as it containes both a perfect and also imperfect degree of Vertue, and state of the mind.