A25294:1154
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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Doct. 1. We ought out of conscience towards God to keep our selves from all impurity and unchastity.
Reas. 1. Because sins of this kind bring disorder into ⟨p. 248⟩such things as belong to the propagation of mans life, and so tend some way to the corrupting of mankind.
Reas. 2. Because from such sins a sort of most inward uncleanness followeth in the person or body of man; whence it is, that the Apostle, 1 Cor. 6. 18. distinguisheth this sin from all others, in that others are without the body, this in and against the body it self; though there be some other sins that seem to be in and against the body, as drunkenness, surfeit, &c. yet they neither so inwardly arise from the body, nor so directly affect it, and primarily, as these lustful dishonesties.
Reas. 2. Because from such sins a sort of most inward uncleannesse followeth in the person or body of man; whence it is, that the Apostle, 1 Cor. 6. 18. distinguisheth this sin from all others, in that others are without the body, this in and against the body it self; though there be some other sins that seem to be in and against the body, as drunkennesse, surfet, &c. yet they neither so inwardly arise from the body, nor so directly affect it, and primarily, as these lustfull dishonesties.