A25291:1388
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.
28. The ordinary Ministers do follow the form of the Church instituted; and are not Ecumenical, National, Provincial, or Diocesan Bishops, but Elders of one Congregation, who in the same sense are also called Bishops in the Scriptures.
28. The ordinary Ministers doe follow the forme of the Church instituted; and are not Occumenicall, Nationall, Provinciall, or Dioecesan Bishops, but Elders of one Congregation, who in the same sence are also called Bishops in the Scriptures.
29. Those transcendent members of the Hierarchy were merely humane Creatures brought into the Church without any Divine precept or example: They cannot fulfil the office of a Pastor in so many Congregations. They rob the Churches of their liberty, whilst they exercise as it were, a regal, or rather tyrannical dominion over the Churches themselves, and their Pastors, they have brought in with them the Roman Antichrist ⟨p. 204⟩[…] ⟨p. 205⟩[…] ⟨p. 200⟩[…] ⟨p. 201⟩[…] ⟨p. 202⟩[…] ⟨p. 203⟩[…] ⟨p. 204⟩himself, as the head, and Chancellors, Suffragans, Arch-deacons, Officials and the like props of the Hierarchy, as the tail of the same sort, (whose very names are Apocryphal, and altogether unknown to the first Churches) to the utter oppressing of the Churches of GOD.