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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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Doct. 4. They that are learned and also stablished in the truth, do yet stand in need of admonitions and exhortations.
This is gathered from these words, though ye know them and be stablished in the present truth.
Reason 1. Because they are not so learned and stablished, but that they may be yet farther instructed and stablished.
2. Because if they had all knowledge and also faith, yet their will and affections must be by these means stirred up unto their duty. For our will is like unto a slow and dull servant, to whom it is not enough once to hear the commands of his master, but they must be often told him. Then again, if they had not only all knowledge and saith, but also a most ready will and affections, yet because they are continually assaulted by temptations, they have need on the other side of continual remembrances and puttings in mind, to strengthen them. The speech of the Captain and the sound of the Trumpet, and such like excitements, do put some courage even into the most valiant soldiers.