A25291:40
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 although in this life there is contained as well ⟨p. 3⟩to live happily as to live well, yet [Greek or Hebrew], to live well, is more excellent then [Greek or Hebrew], to live happily; and that which ought chiefly and finally to be respected is not blessedness, which respects our profit, but goodness, which is referred to Gods glory. Therefore Divinity is better defined by that good life whereby we live to God, then by a blessed life whereby we live to our selves; as it is called of the Apostle by a Synecdoche. The doctrine according to God lives, 1. Tim. 6. 3.
8. But although in this life there is contained as well ⟨p. 3⟩to live happily as to live wel, yet 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to live well, is more excellent then 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to live happily; and that which ought cheifly and finally to be respected is not blessednesse, which respects our profit, but goodnesse, which is referred to Gods glory. Therefore Divinity is better defined by that good life whereby we live to God, then by a blessed life whereby we live to our selves; as it is called of the Apostle by a Synecdoche. The doctrine according to God lives, 1. Tim. 6. 3.
9. Moreover seeing this life is a spiritual act of the whole man, whereby he is carried on to enjoy God, and to do according to his will, and it is manifest that those things are proper to the will, it follows that the prime and proper subject of Divinity is the will. Pro. 4. 23