A25291:1398
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.
CHAPTER LX.
Of Baptism and the Supper of the Lord.
Of Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord.
1. After the nature of the New Testament, the Sacraments of the same do follow, for they are for number few, to be obtained, and observed easy, and in their signification must perspicuous.
1. AFter the nature of the New Testament, the Sacraments of the same doe follow, for they are for number few, to be obtained, and observed easy, and in their signification must perspicuous.
2. They were sanctified and instituted by Christ himself: for although the one Sacrament was first used by John Baptist, yet in that very thing he was the forerunner of Christ, that he might show, what Christ himself afterward would allow and institute, neither had it the respect of an ordinary institution by the Ministry of John, but by the institution of Christ himself.