A25291:1545
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.
31. The fourth is Temperance, whereby all those desires which divert men from well-doing are assuaged and restrained: and so it makes virtue undefiled. 2 Tim. 2. 4. None that goeth a warfare entangleth himself. 1 Pet. 1. 13. Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, &c. It is often called in Scripture Sobriety when that word is used in a more general sense, as 1 Pet. 1. 13. & 5. 8. And purity or cleanness of heart. 1 Tim. 1. 5. 1 Peter 2. 22. And also sincerity, as it doth exclude pollution of any mixture. This force of the word is showed 2 Cor. 1. 12. With simplicity and sincerity of God, not with fleshly wisdom.
31. The fourth is Temperance, whereby all those desires which divert men from wel-doing are asswaged and restrained: and so it makes vertue undefiled. 2 Tim. 2. 4. None that goeth a warfare entangleth himselfe. 1 Pet. 1. 13. Gird up the loynes of your mind, be sober, &c. It is often called in Scripture Sobriety when that word is used in a more generall sence, as 1 Pet. 1. 13. & 5. 8. And purity or cleannesse of heart. 1 Tim. 1. 5. 1 Peter 2. 22. And also sincerity, as it doth exclude pollution of any mixture. This force of the word is shewed