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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. 1. This may serve to refute those, that will have our salvation to depend upon the frailty of our will: they deny that God doth powerfully work in us to salvation, when notwithstanding the Scripture doth expressly affirm it. Eph. 1. 19. & 3. 16. 20. 2. For comfort; for when we have such a Keeper as is omnipotent, we have no cause to fear that any thing present or to come should ever frustrate our hope, or deprive us of our expected salvation. 3. To exhort us, to depend upon that power of God by true faith, as it is in the text.
Vse. 1. This may serve to refute those, that will have our salvation to depend upon the frailty of our will: they deny that God doth powerfully worke in us to salvation, when notwithstanding the Scripture doth expressely affirme it. Eph. 1. 19. & 3. 16. 20. 2. For comfort; for when wee have such a Keeper as is omnipotent, wee have no cause to feare that any thing present or to come should ever frustrate our hope, or deprive us of our expected salvation. 3. To exhort us, to depend upon that power of God by true faith, as it is in the text.
Doct. 8. These spiritual blessings of God, should never be mentioned or thought upon by us, without a pious desire to bless God for them.
Doct. 8. These spirituall blessings of God, should never bee mentioned or thought upon by us, without a pious desire to blesse God for them.
This is gathered from that word Blessed. So