A25294:1141
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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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.
Reas 2. Because the hurting of this life, belongs to the hurt of his eternal state and condition.
Reas. 3. Because the depriving of this life draws with it the deprivation of all the true comfort of the bodily life also.
Reas. 3. Because the depriving of this life drawes with it the deprivation of all the true comfort of the bodily life also.
Reas. 4. Because in hurting this life, Gods glory is directly wronged, by reason that this life cannot be hurt, but by the sin as well of him that hurts it, as him that is hurt; though bodily life may be taken away without the sin of him whose it is.
Use, Of Admonition, that with great care & conscience we keep our selves from all things whereby this life of the soul is hurt; as, 1. From Heretical ⟨p. 246⟩Doctrines. •. From evil and corrupt counsels . From scandalous and pernicious examples. 4. From all neglect of such duties, as we owe unto our Neighbour, in order to this eternal salvation.