A25291:1583
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.
17. Hence our good works, whilst we live here, are imperfect and impure in themselves.
17. Hence our good workes, whilest we live here, are imperfect and impure in themselves.
18. Hence they are not accepted before GOD, but in Christ.
19. Hence in the works of the regenerate there is not that respect of merit whereby any reward is obtained by Justice.
19. Hence in the workes of the regenerate there is not that respect of merit whereby any reward is obtained by Iustice.
20. Yet that reward which is imputed not of debt, but of grace, Rom. 4. 4. is sometime assigned to those imperfect endeavours,