A25291:1732
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.
4. A confuse and remote inclination towards God goeth before Faith (a certain shadow▪ whereof is found in a certain manner in all Creatures) Acts 17. 27- That they might seek the Lord, if happily they might find him by seeking him, but it is rather an ineffectual Velleitas woulding (as they call it) to love God, then a true love.
4. A confuse and remote inclination towards God goeth before Faith (a certaine shadow▪ whereof is found in a certaine manner in all Creatures) Acts 17. 27- That they might seeke the Lord, if happily they might find him by seeking him, but it is rather an ineffectuall Velleitas woulding (as they call it) to love God, then a true love.
5. That distinction of the Schoolmen, between the natural and supernatural love of God, that is, whereby they make one love of God, as it is the beginning and end of nature, and another as it is the beginning and end of grace, is an idle figment. Neither indeed can a man since the fall, by the strength of nature without Faith, love GOD above all, no not with that love which they call natural.
5. That distinction of the Scholemen, betweene the naturall and supernaturall love of God, that is, whereby they make one love of God, as it is the beginning and end of nature, and another as it is the beginning and end of grace, is an idle figment. Neither indeed can a man since the fall, by the strength of nature without Faith, love GOD above all, no not with that love which they call naturall.