A25291:2003
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.
8. But tempting of God is sometime with an express intention to try God, as in unlawful casting of Lots, and whensoever we presume that of God which he hath not promised.
8. But tempting of God is sometime with an expresse intention to try God, as in unlawfull casting of Lots, and whensoever we presume that of God which he hath not promised.
9. Sometime it is with a secret and implied consent, namely when that is done which of it self and in its own nature tends to this, that God may be tried, although he that doth it think no such thing.
9. Sometime it is with a secret and implied consent, namely when that is done which of it selfe and in its own nature tends to this, that God may be tried, although he that doth it thinke no such thing.
10. And this is done two ways, First, when one willeth and expected any thing to be done, and in the mean while refuseth the means that are necessary for it: as they do in natural things who would have health or continuance of life, and reject medicines, or food: as they also in supernatural things which would have grace and life, but neglect the Word of God, and Sacraments, with the like means of grace and salvation. Secondly, when one exposeth himself to danger without urgent necessity, from which he can in no wise or scarcely be delivered, except by a miracle from God: as they do in natural things often who seek vain glory in contemning death, and those in spiritual things who seem as it were to love the occasions, and enticements to sin.
10. And this is done two wayes, First, when one willeth and expected any thing to be done, and in the meane while refuseth the meanes that are necessary for it: as they doe in naturall things who would have health or continuance of life, and reject medicines, or food: as they also in supernaturall things which would have grace and life, but neglect the Word of God, and Sacraments, with the like meanes of grace and salvation. Secondly, when one exposeth himselfe to danger without urgent necessity, from which he can in no wise or scarsly be delivered, except by a miracle from God: as they doe in naturall things often who seeke vaine glory in contemning death, and those in spirituall things who seeme as it were to love the occasions, and entisements to sinne.