A25291:1981
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.
22. It doth not appear from the nature of Lots, that they do most agree to the lightest things: for although we may not expect Gods special determination unless we have before done so much as in us is to decide the question, propounded by ordinary means, yet by that our endeavour weightiness is either not removed from the controversy it self, or not to be committed to a Lot.
22. It doth not appeare from the nature of Lots, that they doe most agree to the lightest things: for although we may not expect Gods speciall determination unlesse we have before done so much as in us is to decide the question, propounded by ordinary meanes, yet by that our indeavour waightinesse is either not removed from the controversie it selfe, or not to be committed to a Lot.
23. The very nature of a Lot is holy, as of an Oath: therefore there is no need that it should receive special ⟨p. 301⟩sanctification from any special institution. For although that contingency which is as it were the matter of a Lot, is not of its own nature holy, as neither Bread nor Wine ought to be so esteemed; yet in application to its use, it putteth on a certain sanctity, as the words of an Oath, and the elements in the Sacraments.
23. The very nature of a Lot is holy, as of an Oath: therefore there is no need that it should receive speciall ⟨p. 301⟩sanctification from any speciall institution. For although that contingency which is as it were the matter of a Lot, is not of its owne nature holy, as neither Bread nor Wine ought to be so esteemed; yet in application to its use, it putteth on a certaine sanctity, as the words of an Oath, and the elements in the Sacraments.