A25291:2018
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.
23. Tempting or proving of God is sometime taken in good part, and is commanded, Mat. 3. 10. Try ⟨p. 307⟩me now in this, saith the Lord of Hosts.
24. But this tempting is an act of Faith, leading us to obey and practise those things which God hath commanded; with expectation of that fruit and blessing which God hath promised.
25. This lawful tempting of God doth put back all the tentations of the Devil.
25. This lawfull tempting of God doth put back all the tentations of the Devill.
26. That unlawful tempting of God doth lay us open to the tentations of the Devil, neither are we ever overcome by any tentation of the Devil, unless we do in a sort tempt God.