A25291:41
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.
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. From the heart cometh actions of life. And 23. 26. Give me thy heart.
9. Moreover seeing this life is a spirituall act of the whole man, whereby he is caried on to enjoy God, and to doe according to his will, and it is manifest that those things are proper to the will, it followes that the prime and proper subject of Divinity is the will. Pro. 4. 23. From the heart commeth actions of life. And 23. 26. Give me thy heart.
10. But seeing this life and will is truly and properly our most perfect practise, It is of it self manifest, that Divinity is practical, and not a speculative discipline, not only in that common respect, whereby other disciplines have their [Greek or Hebrew], well doing for their end, but it is practical in a peculiar and special manner and above all other.
10. But seeing this life and will is truly and properly our most perfect practise, It is of it selfe manifest, that Divinity is practicall, and not a speculative discipline, not onely in that common respect, whereby other disciplines have their 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, well doing for their end, but it is practicall in a peculiar and speciall manner and above all other.