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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 reprove those, that are wont to say, when they are stirred up to Christian duties, that they are not Saints or Angels, but flesh and blood, and therefore cannot either abstain from common vices, or come near unto a heavenly life. For Christians besides and above that nature, which they have from Adam, are made partakers also of a divine nature, whereby they are able to do all things through him that strengtheneth them, namely Christ, Phil. 4. 13.
2. To reprove those, that are wont to say, when they are stirred up to Christian duties, that they are not Saints or Angels, but flesh and blood, and therefore cannot either abstaine from common vices, or come neere unto a heavenly life. For Christians besides and above that nature, which they have from Adam, are made partakers also of a divine nature, whereby they are able to doe all things through him that strengtheneth them, namely Christ, Phil. 4. 13.
3. To exhort us, to labour with all diligence, that the grace of God may be unto us like a second nature, as some say of Custom. And so it will be, when we perform the works of grace and new obedience, not by constraint or unwillingly, as many use to do, but with delight and cheerfulness, as if we were carried hereunto by the inclination of nature, as the fire is upward.
3. To exhort us, to labour with all diligence, that the grace of God may be unto us like a second nature, as some say of Custome. And so it will be, when we performe the workes of grace and new obedience, not by constraint or unwillingly, as many use to doe, but with delight and cheerfulnesse, as if we were carried hereunto by the inclination of nature, as the fire is upward.