A25291:1116
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. From the Ministry there ariseth a third, state of the Church: for as by Faith it had its essential state, and by a combination its integral state: so also by the Ministry it hath a certain organical state: because it is now made fit to exercise all those operations which pertain to the good of the whole.
18. From the Ministery there ariseth a third, staet of the Church: for as by Faith it had its essentiall state, and by a combination its integrall state: so also by the Ministery it hath a certaine organicall state: because it is now made fit to exercise all those operations which pertaine to the good of the whole.
19. The course and direction of these operations, is Ecclesiastical polity.
19. The course and direction of these operations, is Ecclesiasticall polity.
20. The form of this polity is altogether monarchical in respect of Christ, the head and King; but as touching the visible and vicarious administration, it is of ⟨p. 164⟩a mixed nature; partly as it were aristocratical, and partly as it were democratical.
20. The forme of this polity is altogether monarchicall in respect of Christ, the head and King; but as toching the visible and vicarious administration, it is of ⟨p. 164⟩a mixt nature; partly as it were aristocraticall, and partly as it were democraticall.