A25291:1938
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.
26. Christ in the fifth of Matthew doth not condemn every Oath, but such as are rash, indirect, and made by the Creatures.
26. Christ in the fifth of Matthew doth not condemne every Oath, but such as are rash, indirect, and made by the Creatures.
27. James Chap. 5. Ver. 12. Doth condemn the same abuse of an Oath, and not all swearing, whereby his repeating the words of Christ he doth manifestly show, that those words of Christ swear not at all, do make one sentence with those that follow; neither by Heaven, &c. And so are to be understood as joined together, not divided asunder.
27. Iames Chap. 5. Ver. 12. Doth condemne the same abuse of an Oath, and not all swearing, whereby his repeating the words of Christ he doth manifestly shew, that those words of Christ sweare not at all, doe make one sentence with those that follow; neither by Heaven, &c. And so are to be understood as joyned together, not divided asunder.
28. Amen, Amen is not a form of swearing, but only of a grave asseveration. Those words, Hebr. 6. 14. Surely blessing I will bless thee, do not contain the form, but the matter only of that Oath which is, Gen. 22. 16. 17. neither doth the word, Amen, appear there, either in the Greek or Hebrew, as some have rashly imagined.
28. Amen, Amen is not a forme of swearing, but only of a grave asseveration. Those words,