A25291:1574
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.
8. Moreover this will of God doth inform an action of man, as far forth as it is apprehended by reason. Hence the very conscience of man is the subordinate rule of moral actions: so as every action must agree with a right conscience, and an erring or doubtful conscience is first to be laid down before a man may do against it; although a lighter scruple or sticking of conscience must not any way put off any action otherwise approved.
8. Moreover this will of God doth informe an action of man, as far forth as it is apprehended by reason. Hence the very conscience of man is the subordinate rule of morall actions: so as every action must agree with a right conscience, and an erring or doubtfull conscience is first to be laid down before a man may doe against it; although a lighter scruple or sticking of conscience must not any way put off any action otherwise approved.
9. But that this form or manner be good it requires all the circumstances to be good, for a singular action is always clothed with its circumstances, upon which the goodness or evilness of it doth not a little depend.
9. But that this forme or manner be good it requires all the circumstances to be good, for a singular action is alwayes clothed with its circumstances, upon which the goodnesse or evillnesse of it doth not a little depend.
10. But those circumstances being referred to the act of the will, do pass into the nature of an object. For the will whiles it willeth some work, willeth all that which is in it, and so all the known circumstances either expressly or implicitly; and a known circumstance being changed, oftentimes the act of the will is changed.