A25291:1536
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.
23. They also use the same judgement, who think they have found eight beatitudes in the Sermon of Christ. Matth. 5. For there is but one beatitude, but seeing it hath divers signs, namely all solid virtues, together with the operations of them, the Lord doth propound certain singular virtues, or operations of virtues, which do most agree to his Kingdom, and are very remote from humane sense, and doth partly persuade them by the promise of blessedness, and doth partly also describe blessedness, or blessed men, by the study and profession of them.
23. They also use the same judgement, who thinke they have found eight beatitudes in the Sermon of Christ. Matth. 5. For there is but one beatitude, but seeing it hath divers signes, namely all solid vertues, together with the operations of them, the Lord doth propound certaine singular vertues, or operations of vertues, which doe most agree to his Kingdome, and are very remote from humane sence, and doth partly perswade them by the promise of blessednesse, and doth partly also describe blessednesse, or blessed men, by the study and profession of them.
24. The common affections of virtue, are those four which are wont to be called Cardinal virtues.
24. The common affections of vertue, are those foure which are wont to be called Cardinall vertues.
25. For they do not make four kinds of virtues, as the most have hitherto thought, who do manifest violence both to virtue and reason it self, whilst they will constrainedly refer all singular virtues to those heads: but they are four conditions, which are necessarily required in that disposition which deserves the name of virtue.