A25291:1626
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.
22. So is that to be understood which is wont to be ⟨p. 247⟩said, that religion respects God as the first beginning and supreme Lord of life. And so that distinction of the Papists is too empty whereby they confess, that those acts of religion which respect God as the first beginning of life, are to be performed only to God, but they contend that other acts of religion may be communicated to the Creatures also, when there is no act of religion which doth not belong to God, as the first beginning of life.
22. So is that to be understood which is wont to be ⟨p. 247⟩said, that religion respects God as the first beginning and supreame Lord of life. And so that distinction of the Papists is too empty whereby they confesse, that those acts of religion which respect God as the first beginning of life, are to be performed only to God, but they contend that other acts of religion may be communicated to the Creatures also, when there is no act of religion which doth not belong to God, as the first beginning of life.
23. The proper act of religionis to bring honour to God, and it is called worship. Exod. 12. 25, 26. and adoration, John 22. 23. For it must contain in a certain manner good unto God, otherwise it should not be obedience towards him, but there can be no intrinsical good added to God, but an outward good, which is honour, that is, a testification of the virtue of another to further his glory or estimation, and this is all that which the Creature can perform unto God.
23. The proper act of religionis to bring honor to God, and it is called worship. Exod. 12. 25, 26