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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.
CHAPTER XIII.
Of instituted worship.
1. Instituted worship is the means ordained by the Will of God, to exercise and further natural worship.
1. INstituted worship is the meanes ordained by the Will of God, to exercise and further naturall worship.
2. All such like means ordained of God are declared in the second Commandment, by forbidding all contrary means of worship devised by men, under the title of Graven and Image: which seeing they were of old the chief inventions of men corrupting the worship of God, they are most fitly (by a Synecdoche frequent in the Decalogue) put instead of all devises of mans wit pertaining to worship.
2. All such like meanes ordained of God are declared in the second Commandement, by forbidding all contrary meanes of worship devised by men, under the title of Graven and Image: which seeing they were of old the chiefe inventions of men corrupting the worship of God, they are most fitly (by a Synechdoche frequent in the Decalogue) put instead of all devises of mans wit pertaining to worship.