A25291:2031
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 because, the command of God being put, it depends and flows from the primary worship of God, therefore it is oft persuaded, and urged by those arguments which are taken from the inward and essential manner of worshipping God, as in the second precept. They that love me, and keep by Commandments. Deut. 10. 12, 13. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, walk in all his ways, & that thou love him, & worship the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and all thy soul: observing the precepts of the Lord, and his Statutes.
8. But because, the command of God being put, it depends and flowes from the primary worship of God, therefore it is oft perswaded, and urged by those arguments which are taken from the inward and essentiall manner of worshipping God, as in the second precept. They that love me, and keep by Commandements. Deut. 10. 12, 13. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou feare the Lord thy God, walke in all his wayes, & that thou love him, & worship the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and all thy soule: observing the precepts of the Lord, and his Statutes.
9. That rule therefore of interpreting the Scriptures ⟨p. 309⟩which is wont to be delivered by some is not universally true; that all those duties moral and immutable, which have moral and immutable reasons joined to them; except it be thus understood, that those duties do follow upon those reasons, no special command coming between. Lev. 11. 44. I am the Lord your God, that sanctify you, that ye may be holy, as I am holy •t defile not therefore your selves with any creeping thing.