A25291:1642
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.
Of Faith.
1. THE parts of religion are two; natural worship, and voluntary or instituted worship.
1. THE parts of religion are two; naturall worship, and voluntary or instituted worship.
2. This distinction is grounded on Exod. 20. 6. Those words of the second Commandment: who love me, and keep my Commandments.
2. This distinction is grounded on Exod. 20. 6. Those words of the second Commandement: who love me, and keep my Commandements.
3. Natural worship is that which depends upon the nature of God: so that although we had no Law revealed, and prescribed by God, yet if we did rightly perceive and know the Nature of God, by a meet contemplation of it, we might, the grace of God helping us, perceive all those things which in this behalf pertains unto our duty.