A25291:1084
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.
18. This joining together by covenant doth only so far forth make a Church as it respects the exercising the communion of Saints: for the same believing men may join themselves in covenant to make a City or some civill society, as they do immediately respect a common civill good, but they do not make a Church but as in their constitution they respect holy communion with God among themselves.
18. This joyning together by covenant doth onely so far forth make a Church as it respects the exercising the communion of Saints: for the same believing men may joyne themselves in covenant to make a City or some civill society, as they doe immediatly respect a common civill good, but they doe not make a Church but as in their constitution they respect holy communion with God among themselves.
19. Hence the same men, may make a City or politic society and not a Church; or a Church, and not a City; or both a Church and a City.
19. Hence the same men, may make a City or politicke society and not a Church; or a Church, and not a City; or both a Church and a City.
20. Hence it is that those meetings that are formally Ecclesiastical, are said to be had in the Name of the Lord. Math. 18. 20. 1 Cor. 5. 4.
20. Hence it is that those meetings that are formally Ecclesiasticall, are said to be had in the Name of the Lord.