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Old 03-25-2008, 04:13 PM
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I think everyone else has already answered it, but I'll just add:

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Ans: The Visible Church is a society made up of SUCH as, in all ages, & places of the world do profess the true Religion; &, of their children.
could be considered a loose list (almost an ejusdem generis--"of the same kind"). So, if you were a modern persnicity (and gnat-straining) grammarian, you could argue that it means that the Visible Church is composed of people who are similar to the characteristics listed:

1. profess the true Religion
2. live in some age and live somewhere in the world

But the sentence does not necessarily mean that the Visible Church is completely composed of such people. It grants the possibility that some who meet the above criteria are not members of the Visible Church (and on the other hand, maybe it could include space aliens who do profess but don't live here).

The second version nails it down:

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Ans: The Visible Church is a society made up of ALL SUCH as, in all ages, & places of the world do profess the true Religion; &, of their children.
Because the slight ambiguity of the unmodified "such" is eliminated.
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