A25291:1665
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.
23. This object is always immediately some axiom ⟨p. 253⟩or sentence under the respect of truth: but that in which Faith is principally bounded, of which, and for which assent is yielded to that axiom by Faith is, Ens incomplexum under the respect of some good. Rom. 4. 21. Being fully persuaded, that he who had promised was able also to do it. Heb. 11. 13. Not having received the promises, but seeing them a far off, after they had bin persuaded of them, and had embraced them.
23. This object is alwayes immediatly some axiom ⟨p. 253⟩or sentence under the respect of truth: but that in which Faith is principally bounded, of which, and for which assent is yielded to that axiom by Faith is, Ens incomplexum under the respect of some good. Rom. 4. 21. Being fully perswaded, that he who had promised was able also to doe it. Heb. 11. 13. Not having received the promises, but seeing them a far off, after they had bin perswaded of them, and had embraced them.
24. For the act of the believer is not bounded in the Axiom, or sentence, but in the thing, as the most famous School-men confess. The reason is; because we do not frame axioms, but that by them we may have knowledge of things. Therefore the principal bound unto which the act of the believer tends, is the thing it self, which is chiefly respected in the Axiom.
24. For the act of the believer is not bounded in the Axiom, or sentence, but in the thing, as the most famous Schoole-men confesse. The reason is; because we doe not frame axioms, but that by them we may have knowledge of things. Therfore the principall bound unto which the act of the believer tends, is the thing it selfe, which is chiefly respected in the Axiom.