A25280:101
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustratedAn analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applied by their uses for a further progress in holiness / by ... William Ames ...An analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applyed by their uses for a further progresse in holinesse / by ... William Ames ...
London: printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1641London: printed by E.G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1641
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.
Use. 1. This may serve to refute those carnal men, who suppose the practice of religion to be full of sadness and heaviness, without any joy or delight; when indeed the joy of these men is nothing else but madness, Eccles. 2. 2. and is changed at length into the greatest sorrow: but true and solid joy is the privilege of all the godly, because they alone have true cause of joy, and that joy shall never be taken from them.
Vse. 1. This may serve to refute those carnall men, who suppose the practice of religion to bee full of sadnesse and heavinesse, without any joy or delight; when indeed the joy of these men is nothing else but madnesse, Eccles. 2. 2. and is changed at length into the greatest sorrow: but true and solid joy is the priviledge of all the godly, because they alone have true cause of joy, and that joy shall never be taken from them.
2. To exhort us to raise up our minds to the exercise of this joy, for thereunto we are called, that we should always rejoice in the Lord, Phil. 4. 4. An example hereof we have in the Eunuch, who went forward in his way with joy, after that by baptism he was made sure of the grace of God, Acts 8. 39.
2. To exhort us to raise up our mindes to the exercise of this joy, for thereunto we are called, that we should alwayes rejoyce in the Lord, Phil. 4. 4. An example hereof we have in the Eunuch, who went forward in his way with joy, after that by baptisme he was made sure of the grace of God, Acts 8. 39.