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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 admonish, 1 Preachers, to make the power and coming of Christ the centre as it were of all their Sermons. The Apostle, 1 Cor. 2. 2. Determined to know nothing save Jesus Christ and him crucified, & then also, 2. the hearers, to have a special eye unto that in the hearing of Sermons, how they may profit in the understanding of this mystery.
Vse 1. This may serve to admonish, 1 Preachers, to make the power and comming of Christ the center as it were of all their Sermons. The Apostle, 1 Cor. 2. 2. Determined to know nothing save Iesus Christ and him crucified, & then also, 2. the hearers, to have a speciall eye unto that in the hearing of Sermons, how they may profit in the understanding of this mystery.
2. To exhort us, to fetch all the obedience which we perform unto God, from him as from the fountain. For whatsoever duties flow not from the power and coming of Christ, are not Evangelical, but are infected with hypocrisy, or consist in civility.
2. To exhort us, to fetch all the obedience which we performe unto God, from him as from the fountaine. For whatsoever duties flow not from the power and comming of Christ, are not Evangelicall, but are infected with hypocrisie, or consist in civility.
Doct. 4. The certainty of this Gospel, even as it may be had after the manner of men, is as great as any we can have of any things that are done and past.
Doct. 4. The certainty of this Gospell, even as it may be had after the manner of men, is as great as any we can have of any things that are done and past.