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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
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2. To comfort those Christians that are poor in spirit, even in this present world; for though they have nothing excellent in these outward things, yet they have those exceeding great & precious things provided by God for them. They are in this like unto that heir, of whom Paul makes mention, Gal. 4. 1.
2. To comfort those Christians that are poore in spirit, even in this present world; for though they have nothing excellent in these outward things, yet they have those exceeding great & precious things provided by God for them. They are in this like unto that heire, of whom Paul makes mention, Gal. 4. 1.
Doct. 4. By virtue of these promises we are made partakers of the divine nature.
Doct. 4. By vertue of these promises we are made partakers of the divine nature.
Now by nature is not meant the essence of God, but those perfections, whereof we have a representation made by the Spirit Epist. 1. c. 2. v. 9. They are called the virtues of God, and in other places, it is called the life of God, the Image of God, and the Spirit of God. And this nature is communicated by virtue of the promises, because the promise of the Gospel in this differs from the Law, for the Law considered in it self is a killing Letter, and the ministration of death in respect of sinners, but the Gospel is the ministration of the quickening Spirit 2 Cor. 3 6, 7, 8.