A25294:1132
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.
This is gathered from the words of this command; because while murder or killing is forbidden all causes also, and effectual occasions thereof are forbidden.
This is gathered from the words of this command; because while murther or killing is forbidden all causes also, and effectuall occasions thereof are forbidden.
Reas. 1. Because man is made after the image of God, and so any unjust violence done to the pe• son or life of man, makes against the honour of God, Gen. 9. 6. &c.
Reas. 2. Because God alone is the father of spirits, and the Lord of our life. He doth therefore an injury to God who unjustly hurts his brothers life, and arrogates to himself that power which belongs properly to no other but to God alone.
Reas. 3. Because this is the greatest wrong that can be done to a man, as to this life, to deprive him of life, in which all other injuries are privatively contained.