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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 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.
Now by continence and temperance we mean a moderation, whereby all lusts are suppressed that might allure or withdraw us to any thing that is contrary to virtue and knowledge.
Now by continence and temperance we meane a moderation, whereby all lusts are suppressed that might allure or withdraw us to any thing that is contrary to vertue and knowledge.
Reason 1. Because knowledge tends to such a moderation and government of the affections.