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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Lecture 35: The thirty fifth Lords days.Lecture 35: The thirty fifth Lords dayes.
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. 3. Because worship not commanded, hath not the nature of obedience in it. But it is Gods will ⟨p. 219⟩and it belongs to his honour, that by obeying we worship him, and by worshipping we obey him.
Reas. 4. Because such is the vanity and futility of mens imaginations in things divine, that if it had been left to us, to choose unto our selves the means of divine worship, it would have been turned all into traditions and vain observations; as experience witnesseth, that the Devil by this way hath led away men into empty superstitio•s, almost through all the world.
Reas. 4. Because such is the vanity and futility of mens imaginations in things divine, that if it had been left to us, to choose unto our selves the means of divine worship, it would have been turned all into traditions and vain observations; as experience witnesseth, that the Devill by this way hath led away men into empty superstitio•s, almost through all the world.
Use 1. Is of Refutation against Papists, who have defiled all parts of Divine-worship, with their Willworship, traditions of mens devising, and their own ordinance.