A25291:403
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.
26. In prescribing a Law there is like reason. 1. In that the Law prescribed to Men and Angels, was the same as touching the Essence of it: namely moral, the sum whereof is in the Decalogue. 2. In that that it was written in the heart by way of habit, wherein the first reason of conscience is placed, which is called Syn•ercsis. Rom. 2, 15.
26. In prescribing a Law there is like reason. 1. In that the Law prescribed to Men and Angells, was the same as touching the Essence of it: namely morall, the summe whereof is in the Decalogue. 2. In that that it was written in the heart by way of habit, wherein the first reason of conscience is placed, which is called Syn•ercsis. Rom. 2, 15.
27. But the similitude, and difference is divers. For, First, The principles indeed of this Law are common to Angels and Men, but many secondary conclusions are only proper to men: as of Parents, marriage, meats, and the like.
27. But the similitude, and difference is divers. For, First, The principles indeed of this Law are common to Angells and Men, but many secundary conclusions are only proper to men: as of Parents, mariage, meats, and the like.
28. Secondly, seeing man is of a more imperfect nature then Angels, and so needs more instruction and exercise: therefore there was added to the Law of nature a certain positive thing, otherwise of the same reason with it: as the sanctifying of the seventh day.