A25294:1135
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. 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.
Use 1. Is of Admonition That we diligently keep our selves not only from effusion of blood, in which consists the height of this injury; but also from all cruelty, and from all both words and deeds, whereby mans life, or the comforts and conveniences of his life, may be hurt, or impaired.
Use 1. Is of Admonition That we diligently keep our selves not onely from effusion of blood, in which consists the height of this injury; but also from all cruelty, and from all both words and deeds, whereby mans life, or the comforts and conveniencies of his life, may be hurt, or impaired.
Use. 2. Is of Admonition also that by like reason and conscience we keep our selves from all those inward dispositions and affections, whereby men use to be led and provoked to hurt their neighbour unjustly; as are. 1. Anger. 2. Hatred, which is as it were a vehement anger now strengthened and rooted in the mind, whence it is, that men wish great evils to such as they hate and that constantly; form which affection endeavour follow's; and from endeavour the act it self of hurting. 3. Envy, whereby men so repine at others good estates that they wish them worse, or some evil. 4 Desire of revenge, whereby men use to render evil for evil, and that as it is evil. For although the desire of restitution of what is taken away, or of satisfaction for wrong, or of chastisement, or punishment, against such or such an one, that hath offended, be honest sometimes and laudable; to wit, because and when some evil in these and the like, is wished ⟨p. 245⟩to the party, not as evil, but as it tends to his good, and so as it may be good for him: Yet desire of revenge, whereby we desire some evil to another, as it is, and may be evil to him only, without any reference to his good, can never be either honest, laudable, nor lawful.