A25291:2048
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.
24. The sin which is committed in will-worship, is ⟨p. 312⟩by a general name called superstition.
24. The sin which is committed in will-worship, is ⟨p. 312⟩by a generall name called superstition.
25. Superstition is that whereby undue worship is yielded to God.
26. For in superstition God is always the object, and the end in some measure, but the worship it self i• unlawful.
26. For in superstition God is alwayes the object, and the end in some measure, but the worship it selfe i• unlawfull.