A25291:1078
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.
12. Among believers there are to be accounted as members of the Church the children of those believers who are in the Church. 1 Cor. 7. 14. Your children are holy. For they are partakers of the same covenant, and the same profession with their parents.
13. Yet infants are not so perfect members of the Church, as that they can exercise acts of communion, or be admitted to partake of all the privileges thereof, unless there do first appear an increase of Faith: but ⟨p. 159⟩they are not to be excluded from those privileges which pertain to the beginning of Faith and entrance into the Church.
13. Yet infants are not so perfect members of the Church, as that they can exercise acts of communion, or be admitted to partake of all the priviledges thereof, unlesse there doe first appeare an increase of Faith: but ⟨p. 159⟩they are not to be excluded from those priviledges which pertaine to the beginning of Fait and entrance into the Church.
14. Believers do not make a particular Church, although peradventure many may meet and live together in the same place, unless they be joined together by a special bond among themselves: for so some one Church should often be dissolved into many and manyal•o should be confounded into one.