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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.
Reason 1. Because there are some divine mysteries so far remote from us, that in what words soever they be expressed, they will always be hard to be understood.
Reason 1. Because there are some divine mysteries so farre remote from us, that in what words soever they be expressed, they will alwayes be hard to be understood.
2. Because God would have some things, that are not of so general and necessary a use, out of his singular wisdom to be more obscurely propounded: which seems to be the proper reason, why those things of Antichrist, 2 Thess. 2. were in the Primitive Church hard to be understood. For God would for just causes, that Antichrist should come, and that most men should be ignorant who he was, until he did come.
2. Because God would have some things, that are not of so generall and necessary a use, out of his singular wisdome to be more obscurely propounded: which seemes to be the proper reason, why those things of Antichrist, 2 Thess. 2. were in the Primitive Church hard to be understood. For God would for just causes, that Antichrist should come, and that most men should be ignorant who he was, untill he did come.
3. God would exercise the industry and diligence of the faithful in searching the Scriptures, and finding out the sense and meaning of them, not to deter men from reading them as the Papists use to do, by wresting this argument amiss. For Peter in this place doth not discourage so much as the common sort of the faithful from reading the Scriptures, but rather stirs them up to read all the Epistles of Paul, although he tells them that there are some things in them that must be read warily.