A25291:1394
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.
34. A consequent, and consummating adjunct is ordination, which is nothing else then a certain solemn entrance of the Minister already elected, into the free execution of his function: whence it comes to pass that [Greek or Hebrew], ordaining by election, and [Greek or Hebrew] Imposition of hands do often signify the same thing among the ancients.
34. A consequent, and consummating adjunct is ordination, which is nothing else then a certaine solemne entrance of the Minister already elected, into the free execution of his function: whence it comes to passe that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ordaining by election, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Imposition of hands doe often signifie the same thing among the ancients.
35. The Episcopal ordination of a Minister without title, that is, without a Church to which and in which he should be ordained, is as ridiculous as if any should be feigned to be a husband without a wife.
35. The Episcopall ordination of a Minister without title, that is, without a Church to which and in which he should be ordained, is as rediculous as if any should be fained to be a husband without a wife.
36. A Minister so called to some one Church, can neither forsake it at his own will, or be cast out from it without just cause: neither can another undertake the like care of the Church, or neglect that which he hath undertaken, by voluntary non-residency, without sacrilegious breaking of his covenant.