A25291:1591
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.
25. There is one and the same goodness or evilness of an internal act, and an external commanded by it: for it is the same act in kind of manners; For to will to worship God, and from that will towards God, are not two acts of obedience, but two degrees of one and the same act, so that the goodness of the one is perfected in the other, 2 Cor. 8. 11. Perform to do that very thing: that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance.
25. There is one and the same goodnesse or evillnesse of an internall act, and an externall commanded by it: for it is the same act in kind of manners; For to will to worship God, and from that will towards God, are not two acts of obedience, but two degrees of one and the same act, so that the goodnesse of the one is perfited in the other, 2 Cor. 8. 11. Performe to doe that very thing: that as there was a readinesse to will, so there may be a performance.
26. The outward act without the inward is not properly, good or evil: but the inward is good or evil, without the external; because the goodness of an action depends first and chiefly upon the will, which is often accepted with God, although the outward work it self be absent. 2 Cor. 8. 13. If there be first a ready ⟨p. 241⟩mind, one is accepted according to that he hath.
26. The outward act without the inward is not properly, good or evill: but the inward is good or evill, without the externall; because the goodnesse of an action depends first and chiefly upon the will, which is often accepted with God, although the outward work it selfe be absent.