A25294:1015
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.
Use 2. Is of Exhortation, as well for thanksgiving to God, that he hath delivered us from such Idolatry, as unto care and caution, that we communicate in no manner with such Idolatrous ordinances.
Doct. 3. Such Images are diligently to be shunned of us.
It is gathered from the manner of setting forth the command, whereby with such care and so precisely all and every sort of Images are forbidden: And this is it that thē Apostle John means in 1 Epistle▪ chap. and last verse•
It is gathered from the manner of setting forth the command, whereby with such care and so precisely all and every sort of Images are forbidden: And this is it that thē Apostle Iohn means in 1 Epistle▪ chap. and last verse•
Reas. 1. Because such Images belong to that greatest abomination, to wit, of Idolatry; from which all the godly ought to keep themselves very far.