A25291:1756
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.
27. The love of this world also is opposed to the Charity towards God. 1 John 2. 15. Because this world agreeth not with God & his will. There Verse 16. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Because whatsoever is in the world is not of the Father.
27. The love of this world also is opposed to the Charity towards God. 1 Iohn 2. 15. Because this world agreeth not with God & his will. There Verse 16. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Because whatsoever is in the world is not of the Father.
28. For as the perfection of Charity is in this that the mind doth rest in God, so it must needs be against Charity that the mind doth rest in that which is contrary to God.
28. For as the perfection of Charity is in this that the mind doth rest in God, so it must needs be against Charity that the minde doth rest in that which is contrary to God.
29. Charity is no more the form of other virtues, then any virtue commanding or ordering the acts of another is the form of it: but because those acts which in their nature do not respect God are referred to him by Charity, and in him such acts are perfected, therefore by a metaphor it is not amiss called the form of those acts, and of the virtues also from which they come.
29. Charity is no more the forme of other vertues, then any vertue commanding or ordering the acts of another is the forme of it: but because those acts which in their nature doe not respect God are referred to him by Charity, and in him such acts are perfected, therefore by a metaphor it is not amisse called the forme of those acts, and of the vertues also from which they come.