A25291:1072
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.
6. Such a congregation or particular Church is a society of believers joined together by a special band ⟨p. 158⟩among themselves▪ for the constant exercise of the communion of Saints among themselves.
6. Such a congregation or particular Church is a society of believeres joyned together by a speciall band ⟨p. 158⟩among themselves▪ for the constant exercise of the communion of Saints among themselves.
7. It is a society of believers: because that same thing in profession doth make a Church visible, which by its inward and real nature doth make a mystical Church, that is, Faith.
7. It is a society of believers: because that same thing in profession doth make a Church visible, which by its inward and reall nature doth make a mysticall Church, that is, Faith.
8. But because true Faith hath holiness joined with it, which it doth effectually work. Acts 15. 9. And so the profession of true faith cannot be disjoined from the profession of holiness, therefore the Church is promiscuously and in the same sense called, a society of believers, and of Saints.