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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 exhort us, to have great care of faith, because all virtues depend upon it.
2. To exhort us, to have great care of faith, because all vertues depend upon it.
Doct. 5. Virtue is the glory of faith.
Doct. 5. Vertue is the glory of faith.
This is gathered therehence, that it is said, it must be added to faith as something belonging to the perfection thereof. Now it is not an essential perfection, but complementall; not internal properly, but external.
This is gathered therehence, that it is said, it must be added to faith as something belonging to the perfection thereof. Now it is not an essentiall perfection, but complementall; not internall properly, but externall.
Reason 1. Because faith without virtue is not a living, but a dead faith.