A25291:1080
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.
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.
14. Believers doe not make a particular Church, although peradventure many may meete and live together in the same place, unlesse they be joyned together by a speciall bond among themselves: for so some one Church should often be dissolved into many and manyal•o should be confounded into one.
15. This bond is a covenant, either express or implicit whereby believers do particularly bind themselves, to perform all those duties, both toward God and one toward another, which pertain to the respect and edification of the Church.
15. This bond is a covenant, either expresse or implicite whereby believers doe particularly bind themselves, to performe all those duties, both toward God and one toward another, which pertaine to the respect and edification of the Church.
16. Hence it is that in the old Testament we do for the most part so often read of the renewing of their covenant, as there is related any solemn reformation of the Church.
16. Hence it is that in the old Testament wee doe for the most part so often read of the renewing of their covenant, as there is related any solemne reformation of the Church.