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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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Reas. 2. Is, because God did not only prescribe a law unto man in the Creation, but also engraved it upon his heart; by which means it was, that man had in himself a most certain Testimony of his uprightness, in which and to which, he was created, and withal a most sufficient and ready means of living well and unblameably to God: For the law of God perfectly & purely written in the heart of man, is as it were a solemn Testimony registered in a Table or Book, that man was made fit and able to keep that Law. It is as it were the voice of God sent down from Heaven, whereby man was called and stirred up to observe that way of living, which is taught thereby.
Reas. 2. Is, because God did not onely prescribe a law unto man in the Creation, but also engraved it upon his heart; by which means it was, that man had in himself a most certain Testimony of his uprightness, in which and to which, he was created, and withall a most sufficient and ready means of living well and unblameably to God: For the law of God perfectly & purely written in the heart of man, is as it were a solemn Testimony registred in a Table or Book, that man was made fit and able to keep that Law. It is as it were the voice of God sent down from Heaven, whereby man was called and stirred up to observe that way of living, which is taught thereby.
Reas. 3. Because God added thereunto a pledge and Sacrament in the Tree of Life, whereby he would have that Covenant of the Law, written in the heart, more clearly confirmed also outwardly; to wit, that he would by the observation of his Law, first perpetuate mans life in this world unto the solemn justification of him, at his appointed time; and then advance him to a further and heavenly Felicity. And on the other side, he threatens Death unto him, in case he should depart from that Will and Law of God: all which had been done to no purpose, if man had been at first made by God himself, in any measure or manner sinful and perverse.
Reas. 3. Because God added thereunto a pledge and Sacrament in the Tree of Life, whereby he would have that Covenant of the Law, written in the heart, more clearly confirmed also outwardly; to wit, that he would by the observation of his Law, first perpetuate mans life in this world unto the solemn justification of him, at his appointed time; and then advance him to a further and heavenly Felicity. And on the other side, he threatens Death unto him, in case he should depart from that Will and Law of God: all which had been done to no purpose, if man had been at first made by God himself, in any measure or manner sinfull and perverse.