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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. 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.
Reas. 4. So far was God from being the cause of sin in the first creation of man, that by no means it can be conceived, how God at any time can be the cause of any sin; because, seeing sin is a defect, it can have no other cause, but a deficient one; and God, seeing he is perfection it self, can no ways, nor ever be deficient.
Use Of Direction; that in all our speeches and thoughts we may keep Gods glory untouched and unspotted, and confess that all the good we have comes always from him; but that all the evil that either we do, or suffer, ariseth not from him, but from our selves.