A25291:1087
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.
21. Neither yet doth some sudden joining together, and exercise of holy communion suffice to make a ⟨p. 160⟩Church: unless there be also that constancy, at least in intention, which brings the state of a body, and members in a certain spiritual polity.
21. Neither yet doth some suddaine joyning together, and exercise of holy communion suffice to make a ⟨p. 160⟩Church: unlesse there be also that constancy, at least in intention, which brings the state of a body, and members in a certaine spirituall politie.
22. This Church is instituted by God and by Christ, Heb. 3. 3. 4. He that builded the House, for every House is built by some, and in this respect it differs from the mystical Church, the gathering of which together into one is not prescribed unto men, but performed immediately b• divine operation, but the gathering together into an instituted Church is so performed by God, that his command and mans duty and labour do come between. Hebr. 10. 25. Not forsaking the assembling our selves together.
22. This Cureh is instituded by God and by Christ, Heb. 3. 3. 4. He that builded the House, for every House is built by some, and in this respect it differs from the mysticall Church, the gathering of which together into one is not prescribed unto men, but performed immediatly b• divine operation, but the gathering together into an instituted Church is so perfomed by God, that his command and mans duty and labour doe come betweene.