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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.
Reas. 1. Because it is the word of God, (as it is in the Text;) which liveth and abideth for ever; whose nature it resembleth in this, that the operation thereof is not momentany or temporary, but it abideth for ever. 2. Because to speak properly, it is the word of eternal life, John 6. 68. for the end and use thereof is, to bring men to eternal life. 3. Because where it is once truly received, it never faileth. John 4. 14.
Reas. 1. Because it is the word of God, (as it is in the Text;) which liveth and abideth for ever; whose nature it resembleth in this, that the operation thereof is not momentany or temporary, but it abideth for ever. 2. Because to speake properly, it is the word of eternall life, Iohn 6. 68. for the end and use thereof is, to bring men to eternall life. 3. Because where it is once truly received, it never faileth. Iohn 4. 14.
Use. 1. This may serve to refute the error of those, which hold that they that are truly regenerated, usually fall away from the grace of God, and so are borne again and again, after they have been regenerate: This is contrary, not only to the promise and covenant of God, that he will keep the faithful, that they shall not depart from him Jer. 32. 40. and to that comfort which Christ gives his members, that no man shall pluck them out of his hand, John 10. 28. But also to the operation of the spirit in the hearts of the faithful, and to the nature of the life it self, that is communicated unto them, which is incorruptible and eternal, as it is in the Text.
Vse. 1. This may serve to refute the errour of those, which hold that they that are truly regenerated, usually fall away from the grace of God, and so are borne againe and againe, after they have beene regenerate: This is contrary, not only to the promise and covenant of God, that he will keepe the faithfull, that they shall not depart from him