A25291:437
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.
25. With this tempting of the Devil there was joined the tempting of God, whereby he did so order that business, that it might thence be manifest what was in Man. But this tempting of God was neither Evil, nor tending to Evil.
25. With this tempting of the Devill there was joyned the tempting of God, whereby he did so order that businesse, that it might thence be manifest what was in Man. But this tempting of God was neither Evill, nor tending to Evill.
26. A third tempting did follow these: namely of Man towards God, wherein he did in a certain manner make trial of the truth and Grace of God: namely making trial, whether God would preserve him, although he did not cleave to him, or whether he would certainly do what he had threatened.
26. A third tempting did follow these: namely of Man towards God, wherein he did in a certaine manner make triall of the truth and Grace of God: namely making triall, whether God would preserve him, although he did not cleave to him, or whether he would certainly doe what he had threatned.
27. A fourth temptation of Eve did accompany that namely towards her self, whereby she received the tentation or suggestion of the Devil, into her self, and ⟨p. 60⟩applied to her self to her own ruin.
27. A fourth temptation of Eve did accompany that namely towards her selfe, whereby she received the tentation or suggestion of the Devill, into her selfe, and ⟨p. 60⟩