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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 refute the Papists, who tax the Scriptures of obscurity.
Vse 1. This may serve to refute the Papists, who tax the Scriptures of obscurity.
2. To reprove and condemn those, that walk in the midst of this light, and yet perceive no more of the things of God, then as if they were in darkness.
2. To reprove and condemne those, that walk in the midst of this light, and yet perceive no more of the things of God, then as if they were in darknesse.
3. To exhort us, 1. To give God thanks for so great a benefit. For God now deals with us, as he did heretofore with ⟨p. 184⟩the Israelites, in whose dwellings there was light, when in all the land of the Egyptians there was thick darkness, Exod. 10. 22. 23. 2. To walk in this light, not to sleep or have fellowship with the works of darkness, as it is Ephesians 5. 8. 11. 14.
3. To exhort us, 1. To give God thanks for so great a benefit. For God now deales with us, as he did heretofore with ⟨p. 184⟩the Israelites, in whose dwellings there was light, when in all the land of the Egyptians there was thick darknesse,