A25291:1383
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.
23. For such a company, and not larger, is properly signified by the word [Greek or Hebrew] Church, neither hath it a larger signification in the New Testament when it is referred to any visible and designed company, neither also among profane authors who are the more ancient.
23. For such a company, and not larger, is properly signified by the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Church, neither hath it a larger signification in the New Testament when it is referred to any visible and designed company, neither also among prophane authors who are the more ancient.
24. Hence divers fixed Congregations, of the same Country, and Province are always called Churches in the plural number not one Church, even in Judea, which was all before one national Church. 1 Thess. 2. 14. Acts 14. 23. & 15. 41. Romans 16. 4. 5. 16. 1 Cor. 16. 1. 19. 2 Cor. 8. 1. 18. 19. Gal. 1. 2. 12.
24. Hence divers fixed Congregations, of the same Countrey, and Province are alwayes called Churches in the plurall number not one Church, even in Iudaea, which was all before one nationall Church. 1 Thess. 2. 14