A25291:1517
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.
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.
6. But it is called an habit, not only because it is had, but also because it maketh the subject which it is in to have it self in a certain manner, that is, it determines the faculty to good, which otherwise is not determined, in which sense this word is found, Hebr. 5. 14. Who by reason of habit, have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
6. But it is called an habit, not onely because it is had, but also because it maketh the subject which it is in to have it selfe in a certaine manner, that is, it determines the faculty to good, which otherwise is not determined, in which sence this word is found, Hebr. 5. 14. Who by reason of habit, have their sences exercised to discerne good and evill.