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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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This corruption first and principally consists in the privation of original righteousness, the absence whereof, so far as it is penal, is inflicted by God▪ but as it is a privation, having the nature of a fault, to wit, the loss of that rectitude, or right constitution, which we should have kept and preserved entire, it depends upon that relation, that all men have to Adam, and to his first sin.
This corruption first and principally consists in the privation of original righteousness, the absence whereof, so far as it is penall, is inflicted by God▪ but as it is a privation, having the nature of a fault, to wit, the losse of that rectitude, or right constitution, which we should have kept and preserved entire, it depends upon that relation, that all men have to Adam, and to his first sin.
Now that such corruption naturally is found in all men, is not only proved from Scriptures, but seems also to be confirmed by experience it self.
Now that such corruption naturally is found in all men, is not onely proved from Scriptures, but seems also to be confirmed by experience it self.
Reas. 1. For in all men there appears a manifest perversion of our wills, and inward appetite; as much as spiritual and truly good things are of no good relish to all animal and natural men: but the contrary evils, which of their own nature have no good relish, seem to them most sweet: Now as the perversion of the sensitive appetite doth denotate bodily sickness; so the perversion of the inmost & most spiritual appetite, doth point forth unto us sickness that is inward and in the spirit. The same also may be observed of the perversion of the judgement and understanding, from whence come so many and shameful errors, whereby good is esteemed evil, and evil good.