A25291:1301
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.
15. For it doth not either only or chiefly consist in the thunderclaps of Excommunications and Anathem•is, but chiefly in Christian correction.
16. Neither is the proper end of reproof that there might be then an entrance made to Excommunication (although by accident that sometimes do follow) but that the necessity of Excommunicating if it can be, might be prevented, and the sinner may be by timely repentance retained in the Church.
16. Neither is the proper end of reproofe that there might be then an entance made to Excommunication (although by accident that sometimes doe follow) but that the necessity of Excommunicating if it can be, might be prevented, and the sinner may bee by timely repentance retained in the Church.
17. Correction, increpation or admonition, ought to be used in every sin unto which the medicine of Discipline agreeth, yet in a divers manner according to be difference of the sin secret, and known. For in hidden sins, those three degrees are to be observed which Christ hath in order prescribed. Mat. 18. 15. 16. 17. But in public sins such a gradation is not necessary, 1 Tim. 5. 20.
17. Correction, increpation or admonition, ought to be used in every sinne unto which the midicine of Discipline agreeth, yet in a divers manner according to be difference of the sin secret, and knowen. For in hidden sins, those three degrees are to be observed which Christ hath in order prescribed.