A25291:1893
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.
80. Fasting is an abstinence from the helps and comforts of this life, whereby humility is showed as it ⟨p. 288⟩were in a real confession, and we are made the more fit to make more effectual prayers. 1. Cor. 7. 5. Joel 1. 14, 15, 16. Dan. 9. 2. 3.
80. Fasting is an abstinence from the helpes and comforts of this life, whereby humility is shewed as it ⟨p. 288⟩were in a reall confession, and we are made the more fit to make more effectuall prayers. 1. Cor. 7. 5. Ioel 1. 14, 15, 16. Dan. 9. 2. 3.
81. Hence fasting considered by it self is not a good work, and part of our obedience toward God, but as it disposeth us to make more free, ardent, and more continued Prayers.
81. Hence fasting considered by it selfe is not a good worke, and part of our obedience toward God, but as it disposeth us to make more free, ardent, and more continued Prayers.