A25291:1533
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. They therefore do weary themselves in vain, who make seven gifts of the spirit out of Isay 11. 2. Upon whom the spirit of Jehovah shall rest. The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah: and do carefully distinguish them from virtues, and have enough to do to demonstrate the proportion of every of them to some virtue. For neither are there only seven gifts of the spirit, although there are no more (nay but six) reckoned up there: because there only the chief and most kingly gifts in respect of the subject are remembered (for it is there spoken of Christ) other gifts by a Synecdoche being understood: neither those gifts themselves whereof there is mention made there, are in very deed distinguished from virtues, but they do by a metonymy, set forth all virtues by their causes.
20. They therefore doe weary themselves in vaine, who make seven gifs of the spirit out of Isay 11. 2. Upon whom the spirit of Iehova shall rest. The Spirit of wisdome and understanding, the spirit of counsell and of might, the spirit of knowledge and of the feare of Iehova: and doe carefully distinguish them from vertues, and have enough to doe to demonstrate the proportion of every of them to some vertue. For neither are there only seven gifts of the spirit, although there are no more (nay but six) reckoned up there: because there only the chiefe and most kingly giftsin respect of the subject are remembred (for it is there spoken of Christ) other gifts by a Synecdoche being understood: neither those gifts themselves whereof there is mention made there, are in very deed distinguished from vertues, but they doe by a metonymy, set forth all vertues by their causes.
21. For although those [Greek or Hebrew] Graces, whereof there is mention, 1 Corinthians 12. 4. are in very deed distinguished from virtues: yet Grace when it notes an inherent perfection in us, doth either set forth some one virtue, or all jointly as it were in his root.