A25294:1046
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. Because it is our natural corruption, little or nothing to regard the dispositions of our minds in worshipping God; which yet God chiefly looks at.
Now the grievousness of the sin, appeareth in this; 1. That God is in this, as it were, mocked: 2. That Gods worship is turned as it were, into a stage-play. 3. That an occasion hereby is given of contemning and blaspheming of Gods name: And amongst the punishments, wherewith God follows this sin, that spiritual revenge is most horrid, whereby he so deserts such men, that things which of their own nature are a savour of life unto life, become unto them a savour of death unto death; ⟨p. 228⟩which also by the very order of nature follows upon this kind of sin.
Now the grievousnesse of the sin, appeareth in this; 1. That God is in this, as it were, mocked: 2. That Gods worship is turned as it were, into a stage-play. 3. That an occasion hereby is given of contemning and blaspheming of Gods name: And amongst the punishments, wherewith God follows this sin, that spiritual revenge is most horrid, whereby he so deserts such men, that things which of their own nature are a savour of life unto life, become unto them a savour of death unto death; ⟨p. 228⟩which also by the very order of nature follows upon this kinde of sin.
Use Of Admonition is, that we take heed of such sort of sins; and these are not to play and make a sport with passages of holy Scripture; or to make use of them to charms, or enchantments, and witchcraft: without any reverence or gravity, to toss them to and fro like Tennis-balls, in common discourse, and purposes; lastly, to be exercised in any part of Gods worship, merely for a shift, and for the fashion, and for the custom that is in use.