A25291:1717
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. But this fear, if it be moderate and tempered by Faith, although it be always materially opposed to Hope yet in man that is a sinner, it is not so formally opposed to Hope and virtue, that it is simply a vice, but rather puts on the consideration and nature of a virtue, 2 Chron. 34. 27. Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst cast down thy self before the Face of God, when thou heardest his words against this place, &c. The reason is because the opposition is not, Secundum idem, & ad idem, according to the same, and unto the same; for hope respects the grace of God, and fear respects the deserts of our sins.
25. But this feare, if it be moderate and tempered by Faith, although it be alwayes materially opposed to Hope yet in man that is a sinner, it is not so formally opposed to Hope and vertue, that it is simply a vice, but rather puts on the consideration and nature of a vertue, 2 Chron. 34. 27. Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst cast down thy selfe before the Face of God, when thou heardest his words against this place, &c. The reason is because the opposition is not, Secundum idem, & ad idem, according to the same, and unto the same; for hope respects the grace of God, and feare respects the deserts of our sins.
26. Also desperation is more directly opposed to hope, in the defect, which is a mere privation of hope ⟨p. 263⟩joined with a sense of that privation, and apprehension of the thing hoped for, as of a thing impossible, or at least as to come, such as was in •ne. Gen. 5. 13, 14. And in Jud•.