A25291:430
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.
18. The second slight was in that he dealt with the Woman 1. Tim. 1. 13. Whether in the presence, or absence of her husband the Scripture is silent.
19. The third slight was in that he determined nothing at the first speech: but only propounded a certain question to the Woman, as if he were ignorant of those matters? Hath God indeed said?
19. The third slight was in that he determined nothing at the first speech: but only propounded a certaine question to the Woman, as if he were ignorant of those matters? Hath God indeed said?
20 The fourth was that his question had much ambiguity in it, for so might be understood that he should not ask of Gods command, but of the sense or meaning of that command, peradventure not sufficiently understood by man, If the question be understood of the command it self, then he might seem to have asked whether God had forbidden them, that they should ⟨p. 59⟩not at all eat of the fruit of any Tree, or as the Woman her self answered whether he had forbidden them the use of that one Tree, and so had not simply given them leave for all.
20 The fourth was that his question had much ambiguity in it, for so might be understood that he should not aske of Gods command, but of the sence or meaning of that command, peradventure not sufficiently understood by man, If the question be understood of the command it selfe, then he might seem to have asked whether God had forbidden them, that they should