A25291:1381
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.
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.
21. For although the mysticall 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 Britany, of France, as we call the Sea according to the shores which it was heth to, the Belgick, British, French Sea, although it be one and the same Sea: yet the instituted Churches, are divers most speciall Species, or Individualls, partaking of the same common nature, as divers fountaines, divers Schooles, 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 stocke, are often set forth by the name of one Family, as the Family of the House of Nassou, &c.
22. Neither is this Church that is instituted by God properly national, provincial, or Diocesan, which f•rmes were brought in by men from the pattern of civill government, especially the Roman: but it is Parochial, or of one congregation, the members where of are combined among themselves, and do ordinarily meet into one place to the public exercise of religion.
22. Neither is this Church that is instituted by God properly nationall, provinciall, or Dioecesan, which f•rmes were brought in by men from the paterne of civill government, especially the Romane: but it is Parochiall, or of one congregation, the members where of are combined among themselves, and doe ordinarily meete into one place to the publick exercise of religion.