A25291:1953
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.
41. To adjure the Devils, is to exercise command over them, and so it is not lawful for any to exercise adjuration toward them, unless he have received special power from God to that purpose.
41. To adjure the Devills, is to exercise command over them, and so it is not lawfull for any to exercise adjuration toward them, unlesse he have received speciall power from God to that purpose.
42. Those exorcisms which were used before Baptism even in the time of the Fathers, were superstitious.
42. Those exorcismes which were used before Baptisme even in the time of the Fathers, were superstitious.
43. The adjurings, or exorcisings of things without life, and consecrations of them to supernatural operations and uses, such as the Papists use in their holy Water, Temples, Bells and the like, are superstitious enchantments.
43. The adjurings, or exorcisings of things without life, and consecrations of them to supernaturall operations and uses, such as the Papists use in their holy Water, Temples, Bells and the like, are superstitious inchantments.