A25291:1268
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. The Sacramental sign hath not that spiritual thing to which it is referred either physically inhering or adhering; for so the sign and thing signified should be together.
18. The Sacramentall signe hath not that spirituall thing to which it is referred either physically inhering or adhering; for so the signe and thing signified should bee together.
19. Neither yet are they bare declaring and representing signs, but communicating the thing it self, testifying, and exhibiting the thing to be more communicated.
19. Neither yet are they bare declaring and representing signes, but communicating the thing it selfe, testifying, and exhibiting the thing to be more communicated.
20. Hence none can institute such an holy sign, but God only: because no Creature can bestow the thing signified, or make the communication of it certain to us, or finally ad that virtue to such signs, whereby they may be made fit to confirm Faith, and Confidence, or to stir up any spiritual grace in us, more then any other thing.
20. Hence none can institute such an holy signe, but God only: because no Creature can bestow the thing signified, or make the communication of it certaine to us, or finally ad that vertue to such signes, whereby they may be made fit to confirme Faith, and Confidence, or to stir up any spirituall grace in us, more then any other thing.