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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Use 1. This may serve to convince those, that please themselves in the ignorance of holy things, because this is the property of a wicked man.
Vse 1. This may serve to convince those, that please themselves in the ignorance of holy things, because this is the property of a wicked man.
2. To admonish us, never to shut our eyes against the light of the truth.
3. To exhort us, on the contrary to use all our endeavour and give all diligence to gain knowledge, especially in those things that pertain to our own practise and life.
3. To exhort us, on the contrary to use all our endeavour and give all diligence to gaine knowledge, especially in those things that pertaine to our own practise and life.
Doct. 2. It makes very much for the taking away or lessening of our ignorance, to look upon the works of God that are past, that from them we may gather the works that are to come.