A25291:1971
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.
12. Ad hereunto, that such is the order of proceeding in mans inquiry, that when men desire some question to be determined, & they have not certain means in their power for this determination, they seek it from some superior power: unto which manner of proceeding the consideration of a Lot doth altogether agree.
12. Ad hereunto, that such is the order of proceeding in mans inquiry, that when men desire some questiō to be determined, & they have not certaine meanes in their power for this determination, they seek it from some superior power: unto which manner of proceeding the consideration of a Lot doth altogether agree.
13. Neither can it stand, that he that worketh by counsel, intending a certain end and scope, by certain reason, can subject his action, either to fortune or mere continge•y as it is such: for so counsel should be without knowledge, and indifferency undetermined should be a means of a cause determined.
13. Neither can it stand, that he that worketh by counsell, intending a certaine end and scope, by certaine reason, can subject his action, either to fortune or meere continge•y as it is such: for so consell should be without knowledge, and indifferency undetermined should bee a meanes of a cause determined.
14. Such an expectation and respect to the singular providence of God is manifestly taught. Prov. 16. vers 33. Whilst the action of every man about a Lot, is affirmed to be bounded in mere contingency. The Lot is cast into the lap, and in accurate discerning the whole judgement is referred to GOD. But all the disposition of it is from the Lord.