A25294:1139
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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This is gathered from the words of the Text, because of all other this is the deadl•est sort of killing a man; of which also the Scripture admonisheth us in the same phrase, whereby bodily killing is forbidden, I will require his blood at thy hands. Ezek. 36. Yet this difference there is between bodily and spiritual killing, that no man can be spiritually killed, or murdered by violence and mere force, as bodily many are.
This is gathered from the words of the Text, because of all other this is the deadl•est sort of killing a man; of which also the Scripture admonisheth us in the same phrase, whereby bodily killing is forbidden, I will require his blood at thy hands. Ezek. 36. Yet this difference there is between bodily and spiritual killing, that no man can be spiritually killed, or murthered by violence and meer force, as bodily many are.
Reas. 1. Because the spiritual life of a man is his preciousest possession, far surmounting his bodily life.
Reas. 1. Because the spiritual life of a man is his preciousest possession, farre surmounting his bodily life.
Reas 2. Because the hurting of this life, belongs to the hurt of his eternal state and condition.