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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.
This is gathered from that, desire the sincere milk of the word: that is, the nature it self of the word and of the things proposed therein, as they are pure, and afford nourishment fit for our Souls.
This is gathered from that, desire the sincere milke of the word: that is, the nature it selfe of the word and of the things proposed therein, as they are pure, and affoord nourishment fit for our Soules.
Reas. 1. Because otherwise we do not desire the word, as it is the word of life, or the bread of life, or the milk of life, as it is in the text, but as we do apprehend it under some carnal show. 2. Because this desire alone proceeds from spiritual life, which seeks after that in the word that tends unto life, which is intimated also in the text by the similitude of infants, that naturally desire their mothers milk.
Reas. 1. Because otherwise we doe not desire the word, as it is the word of life, or the bread of life, or the milke of life, as it is in the text, but as we doe apprehend it under some carnall shew. 2. Because this desire alone proceeds from spirituall life, which seekes after that in the word that tends unto life, which is intimated also in the text by the similitude of infants, that naturally desire their mothers milke.
Use. 1. This may serve to reprove those ministers that falsify the word of God by their own mixtures and devices, and obtrude upon him an adulterate word, in stead of the simple ⟨p. 39⟩and sincere word. 2. To admonish the hearers not to suffer their affections to be carried either towards the person of the speaker, or towards the manner of his speaking, much less towards those strange forgings which many use in their speaking, but sincerely to seek for the sincerity of the word.