A25291:1380
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.
20. Therefore the Church instituted since Christ exhibited, is not one catholic Church, so as all the faithful throughout the world should be joined together in one and the same outward band among themselves, and should depend upon one and the same visible pastor, o• company of pastors, but there are so many Churches as there are companies, or particular Congregations, of ⟨p. 202⟩those that profess the Faith, who are joined together by a special band for the constant exercise of the communion of Saints.
20. Therefore the Church instituted since Christ exhibited, is not one catholick Church, so as all the faithfull throughout the world should be joyned together in one and the same outward band among themselves, and should depend upon one and the same visible pastor, o• company of pastors, but there are so many Churches as there are companies, or particular Congregations, of ⟨p. 202⟩those that prosesse the Faith, who are joyned together by a speciall band for the constant exercise of the communion of Saints.
21. For although the mystical Church, as it is in its members, is no other way distributed then into the adjuncts, and subjects, in which respect we call the Church of Belgia, of Britain, of France, as we call the Sea according to the shores which it was heth to, the Belgic, British, French Sea, although it be one and the same Sea: yet the instituted Churches, are divers most special Species, or Individuals, partaking of the same common nature, as divers fountains, divers Schools, divers Families: although many or all peradventure might be called one Church in respect of some one affection which they have in common, as many Families of some noble stock, are often set forth by the name of one Family, as the Family of the House of Nassau, &c.