A25294:1061
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.
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. 1. Because this is expressly commanded in this moral law, as spoken immediately by God himself, together with the other commands, and written by his own finger on tables of stone, as they were; which things were only proper to the moral law.
Reas. 1. Because this is expresly commanded in this morall law, as spoken immediatly by God himself, together with the other commands, and written by his own finger on tables of stone, as they were; which things were onely proper to the morall law.
Reas. 2. Because it was thus ordained from the beginning of the Creation.
Reas. 2. Because it was thus ordain'd from the beginning of the Creation.
Reas. 3. Because it is never less necessary, that some seventh day be observed, than it was at the first institution. And that the Lords day, or first of the week, or seventh is now by Divine authority appointed to us, that it be holily kept, appeareth:
Reas. 3. Because it is never lesse necessary, that some seventh day be observed, than it was at the first institution. And that the Lords day, or first of the week, or seventh is now by Divine authority appointed to us, that it be holily kept, appeareth: