A25291:1899
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.
86. It is most properly of those things which we have received: because we must first be affected with the sense of a benefit, before we can give thanks to GOD in respect of it.
86. It is most properly of those things which we have received: because we must first be affected with the sence of a benefit, before wee can give thankes to GOD in respect of it.
87. Yet thanks must be given, not only for those things which we have actually and really received, but also for those things we apprehend by Faith and Hope; partly because the promise it self of these things is a benefit, which in some sort is already said to be bestowed; and partly because the things promised are apprehended with that certainty, that they do affect the mind as things present.
87. Yet thankes must be given, not only for those things which we have actually and really received, but also for those things we apprehend by Faith and Hope; partly because the promise it selfe of these things is a benefit, which in some sort is already said to be bestowed; and partly because the things promised are apprehended with that certainty, that they doe affect the mind as things present.
88. Also that celebration of the praises of God belongs to thanksgiving, which is exercised about those perfections which are in God himself, and do shine forth in his works; but with a certain respect to those things we have received, namely as those perfections are arguments that do either illustrate that good which we have received, or confirm the bestowing of it,