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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. This may serve to exhort us, for the confirmation and quickening of our hope, to put before out eyes the resurrection of Christ.
Vse. This may serve to exhort us, for the confirmation and quickning of our hope, to put before out eyes the resurrection of Christ.
Doct. 6. That salvation which we hope for, is a celestial and incorruptible inheritance, Vers. 4.
Doct. 6. That salvation which we hope for, is a celestiall and incorruptible inheritance, Vers. 4.
Reason 1. It comes from God our Father to us his regenerate and adopted sons, as worldly inheritances use to come from fathers to their children.
Reason 1. It comes from God our Father to us his regenerate and adopted sonnes, as worldly inheritances use to come from fathers to their children.
2. Because it is not obtained by buying or any other such like means of our own, but it comes by the will and testament of our heavenly Father. Now as for these reasons, it is rightly called an inheritance; so also in the nature of it it hath this excellency above all other inheritances, that it is celestial and immortal: in which respect it doth not only excel worldly possessions, but also even that very condition of life which Adam had before the fall.