A25294:112
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. 4. There appears manifestly in all men, a certain insensibleness from nature it self, in discerning of things truly good, and truly evil; howbeit there is a far greater sweetness in true spiritual good things, than in corporal; and a far greater bitterness and sourness in spiritual, than in carnal evils: Now this insensibleness and spiritual blockishness is a manifest defect, and vice cleaving to us from our very original, even as the want of any outward sense is a great defect and fault of the body.
Reas. 4. There appears manifestly in all men, a certain insensibleness from nature it self, in discerning of things truly good, and truly evill; howbeit there is a far greater sweetness in true spiritual good things, than in corporall; and a far greater bitterness and sowreness in spiritual, than in carnall evils: Now this insensibleness and spiritual blockishnes is a manifest defect, and vice cleaving to us from our very original, even as the want of any outward sense is a great defect and fault of the body.
Reas. 5. Experience teacheth with how great difficulty and slowness men are stirred up to things that are truly good; therefore as it is the definition of a good habit, that makes a man ready and quick unto good works; so must it be an evil and corrupt ⟨p. 23⟩habit, whereby the contrary comes to pass; because slowly and with difficulty men set themselves to any good endeavours.
Reas. 5. Experience teatheth with how great difficulty and slowness men are stirred up to things that are truly good; therefore as it is the definition of a good habit, that makes a man ready and quick unto good works; so must it be an evill and corrupt ⟨p. 23⟩habit, whereby the contrary comes to passe; because slowly and with difficulty men set themselves to any good endeavours.