A25294:1073
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.
It is gathered from the Text; In six days shalt thou do all thy work; but on the seventh day thou shal• do no work. &c. That is, no work that is thine. Now that work is said to be our work, which neither directly belongs to the worship of God, nor yet is otherways imposed upon us by any necessity from God; but is chosen by our selves for some humane, or worldly end. Now such are 1. All our common and mercenary works. 2 All things, that call away our mind from that intention that is required unto the worship of God on that day, though otherwaies they be not servile. Yet such things are not forbidden, as either belong unto common honesty, or are of a very urgent and not of a made necessity of our own. The reason of this rest is, that we may be at convenient leisure for divine worship: For worldly businesses do in divers ways withstand ⟨p. 233⟩this more solemn worship of God.
It is gathered from the Text; In six dayes shalt thou doe all thy work; but on the seventh day thou shal• doe no work. &c. That is, no work that is thme. Now that work is said to be our work, which neither directly belongs to the worship of God, nor yet is otherways imposed upon us by any necessity from God; but is chosen by our selves for some humane, or worldly end. Now such are 1. All our common and mer•enary works. 2 All things, that call away our mind from that intention that is required unto the worship of God on that day, though otherwaies they be not servile. Yet such things are not forbidden, as either belong unto common honesty, or are of a very urgent and not of a made necessity of our own. The reason of this rest is, that we may be at convenient leisure for divine worship: For worldly businesses do in divers wayes withstand ⟨p. 233⟩this more solemn worship of God.
Reas. 1. Because the very external acts of both are for the most part such, as that they cannot consist or stand together at one time.