A25291:1184
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.
6. But this is so to be understood, that the authority of administering Divine things is immediately communicated from God to all lawful Ministers, and the appointing of persons upon which it is bestowed is done by the Church.
6. But this is so to be understood, that the authority of administring Divine things is immediatly communicated from God to all lawfull Ministers, and the appointing of persons upon which it is bestowed is done by the Church.
7. But because the Church can neither confer gifts necessary for this Ministry nor prescribe unto God upon whom he should bestow them, therefore she can only choose those whom before she sees fitted, for not as extraordinary Ministers, so also ordinary are made fit by their very calling, when they were unfit before.
7. But because the Church can neither confer gifts necessary for this Ministery nor prescribe unto God upon whom he should bestow them, therefore she can only chuse those whom before she sees fitted, for not as extraordinary Ministers, so also ordinary are made fit by their very calling, when they were unfit before.
8. Hence in an ordinary calling it is necessarily required that a lawful trial go before the calling it self. 1 Tim. 3. 10. Let them be first tried, then let them Minister if they be blameless.
8. Hence in an ordinary calling it is necessarily required that a lawfull triall goe before the calling it selfe.