A25291:1990
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.
31. But those humane exercises which are grounded upon art, but are in part subject to casualty in the progress, do greatly differ from Dice.
31. But those humane exercises which are grounded upon art, but are in part subject to casualty in the progresse, doe greatly differ from Dice.
32. Whereas men are wont, by playing at Dice to be stirred up to swearings, cursings, and blasphemies, more then in other exercises, this cometh partly from the nature of the play it self: because the Lo• being often reiterated and often failing expectation, they think that that power which they imagine doth govern the Lot, is against them.
32. Whereas men are wont, by playing at Dice to be stirred up to swearings, cursings, and blasphemies, more then in other exercises, this commeth partly from the nature of the play it selfe: because the Lo• being often reiterated and often failing expectation, they thinke that that power which they imagine doth governe the Lot, is against them.
33. By the same reason also it comes to pass, that they that use those plays can scarce put an end or measure to them: because they who are inferior in the contention, have no reason to despair of their Lot, and so do persist in a pertinacious expectation of their wished success.
33. By the same reason also it comes to passe, that they that use those playes can scarse put an end or measure to them: because they who are inferior in the contention, have no reason to despaire of their Lot, and sodo persist in a pertinacious expectation of their wished successe.