A25291:1045
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.
20. Therefore no part of the Church can truly be called catholic, but as it doth profess that Faith which is the Faith of the catholic Church, in which sense the Ancients, did not only call that part of the Church which was at Rome, but other Churches also. As our Church at Francken, may be rightly called catholic, as it doth profess that Faith which belongs to the catholic Church.
20. Therefore no part of the Church can truly be called catholick, but as it doth professe that Faith which is the Faith of the catholick Church, in which sence the Ancients, did not onely call that part of the Church which was at Rome, but other Churches also. As our Church at Francken, may be rightly called catholick, as it doth professe that Faith which belongs to the catholick Church.
21. The Church is divided into members according to the degrees of communion which it hath with Christ, in which respect it is called either Militant, or Triumphant.
21. The Church is devided into members according to the degrees of communion which it hath with Christ, in which respect it is called either Militant, or Triumphant.
22. The Church militant is that which is partaker only of communion begun: and so doth wrestle as yet with enemies in the field of this World. 1 Cor. 13. 9. 12. We know in part, and prophesy in part: for we see now ⟨p. 155⟩through a Glass and darkly.