A25291:1925
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.
13. Therefore there is so great religion of an Oath that it may admit no equivocation or mental reservation; which things may have their place in play or lighter Jesting, but cannot be used in the worship of God without great impiety. For this is nothing else but to mock at GODS Judgement.
13. Therefore there is so great religion of an Oath that it may admit no equivocation or mentall reservation; which things may have their place in play or ligher Iesting, but cannot be used in the worship of God without great impiety. For this is nothing else but to mocke at GODS Iudgement.
14. Hence also there can no release, properly so called, commuting, or dispensation, and absolution from an Oath, come from man: although some oaths which were either unlawful from the beginning, or afterward become so, may be by men pronounced to be void.
14. Hence also there can no release, properly so called, commuting, or dispensation, and absolution from an Oath, come from man: although some oathes which were either unlawfull from the beginning, or afterward become so, may be by men pronounced to be void.
15. Because it is a testimony of a thing done, or to be done, therefore an Oath that confirms a testimony ⟨p. 293⟩is distinguished into an assertory, and promissory Oath.
15. Because it is a testimony of a thing done, or to be done, therefore an Oath that confirmes a testimony ⟨p. 293⟩