A25291:1069
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.
3. That visibility, which is in distinct companies or congregations, doth not only make a visible Church, but touching the outward form doth make so many visible Churches as there are distinct congregations. Revel. 1. 4. The seven Churches. 2 Cor. 8. 1. 19. The Churches of Macedonia, all the Churches.
3. That visibility, which is in distinct companies or congregations, doth not only make a visible Church, but touching the outward forme doth make so many visible Churches as there are distinct congregations. Revel. 1. 4. The seven Churches. 2 Cor. 8. 1. 19. The Churches of Macedonia, all the Churches.
4. For those congregations are as it were similary parts of the catholic Church, and so do partake both of the name and nature of it.
4. For those congregations are as it were similary parts of the catholick Church, and so doe partake both of the name and nature of it.
5. Therefore a particular Church in respect of that common nature which is found in all particular Churches▪ is a Species of the Church in general, but in respect of the catholic Church which hath the respect of an whole, it is a member compounded of divers several members gathered together, and so in respect of those members it is also an whole.