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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. 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.
Reas. 6. It is well enough known to all, that man hath not the power to do so much good, as he knows should be done, and as he desires to do: Wherefore when one hath not the power to move the members of his body, it is a manifest disease that hinders its motion; so where one hath not the power to move himself spiritually, it is a manifest spiritual disease; as when there is difficulty of corporal motion, and one moves his body with great pains, it discovers a great weakness of his body; even as this other doth a weakness of the spirit.
Reas. 6. It is well enough known to all, that man hath not the power to do so much good, as he knows should be done, and as he desires to doe: Wherefore when one hath not the power to move the members of his body, it is a manifest disease that hinders its motion; so where one hath not the power to move himself spiritually, it is a manifest spiritual disease; as when there is difficulty of corporal motion, and one moves his body with great pains, it discovers a great weaknesse of his body; even as this other doth a weaknesse of the spirit.