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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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Use 1. This may serve to reprove those, that please themselves in their ignorance, as if ignorance were the mother of devotion, or of any virtue, whereas it is the greatest enemy to virtue, and the mother of all profaneness, especially if it be voluntary, as Peter shows, Epist. 2. Chap 3. verse 5. Where he gives a reason of their great wickedness, because those scoffers of whom he speaks, were willingly ignorant of those things which pertain unto true godliness.
Vse 1. This may serve to reprove those, that please themselves in their ignorance, as if ignorance were the mother of devotion, or of any vertue, whereas it is the greatest enemy to vertue, and the mother of all profanenesse, especially if it be voluntary, as Peter shewes, Epist. 2. Chap 3. verse 5. Where he gives a reason of their great wickednesse, because those scoffers of whom he speaks, were willingly ignorant of those things which pertaine unto true godlinesse.
2. To exhort us, to seek for knowledge, and when we have gotten it to apply it also to the increase of virtue. For virtue without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without virtue is vain.
2. To exhort us, to seeke for knowledge, and when wee have gotten it to apply it also to the increase of vertue. For vertue without knowledge is blinde, and knowledge without vertue is vaine.
Doct. 7. Continence or temperance is the perfection of knowledge.