A25291:1940
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.
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, Hebr. 6. 14. Surely blessing I will blesse thee, doe not containe the forme, but the matter only of that Oath which is, Gen. 22. 16. 17. neither doth the word, Amen, appeare there, either in the Greeke or Hebrew, as some have rashly imagined.
29. The words of an Oath are to be interpreted in the Court of conscience, according to the meaning of him that swore, if he dealt simply and candidly: if not, then according to his meaning, whom he would deceive, or to whom he sware. But in the outward Court the words of them that swear, are to be taken as they are commonly understood.
29. The words of an Oath are to be interpreted in the Court of conscience, according to the meaning of him that swore, if he dealt simply and candidly: if not, then according to his meaning, whom he would deceive, or to whom he sware. But in the outward Court the words of them that sweare, are to bee taken as they are commonly understood.