A25291:1522
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.
10. Hence also none can use virtue amiss, as being the principle of action; when notwithstanding men may, and are wont to abuse any habit of the mind.
10. Hence also none can use vertue amisse, as being the principle of action; when notwithstanding men may, and are wont to abuse any habit of the mind.
11. Therefore those virtues which are wont to be called intellectual, have not an exact respect of virtue.
11. Therefore those vertues which are wont to be called intellectuall, have not an exact respect of vertue.
12. Moreover virtue is said to incline not only to good, but also to well doing: because the manner of action doth chiefly flow from virtue.
12. Moreover vertue is said to incline not onely to good, but also to well doing: because the manner of action doth chiefly flow from vertue.