A25291:508
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.
4. Actual Sins are diversly distinguished among themselves, First, in respect of degree. One Sin is greater or lesser then another. Ezech. 5. 6. & 8. She hath changed my judgements more then the Gentles themselves. & 8. 15. Thou shalt see yet greater abominations then these. John 19. 11. He hath the greater Sin: whence also punishment is greater, or lesser. Luke 12. 47. He that knoweth and doth not, shall be beaten with many stripes, and he that knoweth not and doth, shall be beaten with few stripes, Mat. 11. 22. 24.
4. Actuall Sinnes are diversly distinguished among themselves, First, in respect of degree. One Sinne is greater or lesser then another. Ezech. 5. 6. & 8. Shee hath changed my judgements more then the Gent•es themselves. & 8. 15. Thou shalt see yet greater abominations then these. Iohn 19. 11. He hath the grearer Sinne: whence also punishment is greater, or lesser. Luke 12. 47. He that knoweth and doth not, shall be beaten with many stripes, and he that knoweth not and doth, shall be beaten with few stripes, Mat. 11. 22. 24.