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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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Reas. 2. It is manifest that there is in all men a certain rebellion of the inferior and animal faculties and appetites against the superior and most spiritual faculties of the soul; which shows the sickness of the upper part, as not having strength enough to govern the lower; and again a disorder and confusion of the inferior faculties, whereby they will not be subject to their Superior. For as ⟨p. 22⟩as every infirmity, debility and perturbation in the body, so also in the soul, hath its cause of sickness, disease, or certain corruption from the depravation of other parts.
Reas. 2. It is manifest that there is in all men a certain rebellion of the inferiour and animall faculties and appetites against the superiour and most spiritual faculties of the soul; which shews the ficknesse of the upper part, as not having strength enough to govern the lower; and again a disorder and confusion of the inferiour faculties, whereby they will not be subject to their Superiour. For as ⟨p. 22⟩as every infirmity, debility and perturbation in the body, so also in the soul, hath its cause of sicknesse, disease, or certain corruption from the depravation of other parts.
Reas. 3. There may be observed in all, a certain natural crouching of our selves to things that are below us; and a certain aversion and turning away from those, that are above us, and for which we were made; so that there are few amongst men, that live not more like beasts, stooping naturally to their belly-food, and bowing towards the ground, than according to the nature of man whose body was erected to look up to heaven and seek after God. Now as a crouching in the constitution and fashioning of the body, is a sign of a bodily: sickness; so also this soul crouching of the spirit doth manifestly declare some foul sickness of the spirit.
Reas. 3. There may be observed in all, a certain natural crouching of our selves to things that are below us; and a certain aversion and turning away from those, that are above us, and for which we were made; so that there are few amongst men, that live not more like beasts, stooping naturally to their belly-food, and bowing towards the ground, than according to the nature of man whose body was erected to look up to heaven and seek after God. Now as a crouching in the constitution and fashioning of the body, is a sign of a bodily: sicknesse; so also this soul crouching of the spirit doth manifestly declare some foul sickness of the spirit.