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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 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.
This is gathered from these words; We have seen, we have heard. For it is confirmed by the testimony of those, that sensibly perceived it; who by the confession of all were men at least worthy to be believed, having no reason to witness any otherwise then the thing it self was; in regard that they could not expect to receive any profit thereby from men; and being such as confirmed it unto us, not by the bare testimony of their words, but also with their life and blood: so that even after the manner of men we may be as certain of the Gospel as we are, that there was sometimes a Monarchy of the Assyrians, Grecians, Romans: that there were Captains, and Knights, of such and such a country, or the like.
This is gathered from these words; We have seene, we have heard. For it is confirmed by the testimony of those, that sensibly perceived it; who by the confession of all were men at least worthy to be believed, having no reason to witnesse any otherwise then the thing it selfe was; in regard that they could not expect to receive any profit thereby from men; and being such as confirmed it unto us, not by the bare testimony of their words, but also with their life and blood: so that even after the manner of men we may be as certaine of the Gospell as we are, that there was sometimes a Monarchy of the Assyrians, Grecians, Romans: that there were Captaines, and Knights, of such and such a countrey, or the like.