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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.
CHAPTER XXXI.
Of the Church mystically considered. Thus much of the application of Redemption considered in it self: The subject to which, and the manner by which this application is made, doth follow.
Of the Church mystically considered. Thus much of the application of Redemption considered in it selfe: The subject to which, and the manner by which this application is made, doth follow.
1. THE Subject is the Church. Eph. 5. 25. 26. 27. Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it: that he might sanctify it being purified by him with the washing of water through the Word: that he might make it to himself glorious, that is, a Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it might be holy and unblameable: whence Election, Redemption, Vocation, Justification, Adoption, Sanctification, and Glorification do in their propriety belong to the same subject, that is, to the same singular men, which make the Church. John 17. 9. 10. & 11. I pray for them; I pray not for the World, but for them whom thou hast given me, because they are thine, Rom. 8. 29. 30. For whom he hath fore-known, them he did predestinate, &c.