A25291:1996
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.
1. Tempting of God is in a singular manner opposed to hearing the word and Prayer. Psal. 95. 7, 8, 9. To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, as in the day of Tentation in the Wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works. For seeing that in hearing the word and godly Prayer, we have communion with God, according to this will, if we seek such like communion beyond his will, then we are properly said to tempt him.
1. TEmpting of God is in a singular manner opposed to hearing the word and Prayer. Psal. 95. 7, 8, 9. To day if yee will heare his voyce, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, as in the day of Tentation in the Wildernesse: where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my workes. For seeing that in hearing the word and godly Prayer, we have communion with God, according to this will, if we seeke such like communion beyond his will, then we are properly said to tempt him.
2. To tempt God is to make trial of foam Divine perfection in an unlawful manner. Psal. 95. 9.
2. To tempt God is to make triall of fome Divine perfection in an unlawfull manner. Psal. 95. 9.
3. This trial is sometime of the power of God,