A25294:1158
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. 4. Because these impurities in a special manner withstand inward holiness, as appears both from that place of the Thessalonians, where holiness is conjoined with the honour of the body in opposition to this uncleanness; and from that to the Corinthians, where our bodies by these faults, are said of temples of the Holy Ghost, and of members of Christ, to become the members of an Harlot.
Reas. 4. Because these impurities in a special manner withstand inward holiness, as appears both from that place of the Thessalonians, where holinesse is conjoyned with the honour of the body in opposition to this uncleannesse; and from that to the Corinthians, where our bodies by these faults, are said of temples of the Holy Ghost, and of members of Christ, to become the members of an Harlot.
Use, Of Admonition, that with the greater care and conscience we shun all such uncleannesses, which ought so much the more to be called to mind by us, as the depravedness of mans nature useth most to appear in these kind of sins, because they are most common, most prevalent; and keep strongest dominion in him, possessing the whole man, in whom they are, and that most deeply, and with a kind of violence and force. Hence it is, that in Scripture ⟨p. 249⟩they are called a burning, because they burn up all in their way, and by little and little consume the whole man, as fire doth the thing that it burns; more especially we ought to keep our selves, 1. From that lust which is properly called carnal, that we be not subject to, or obey the affections and dispositions of it. 2. From all outward conversation, whereby such lust is cherished and furthered in our selves, or in others; as are, 1. Such thoughts, as with pleasure and delight are taken up and used about unchaste matters. 2. Wanton apparel and behaviour, or which savour of wantonness, or cherish it. 3. Filthy and unclean communication, either in common discourses, or songs. 4. Unclean company, and wanton representations, as are commonly in Stage-plays and interludes, pictures, and rooms hung with such, &c. 5. All occasions and provocations to lust, as idleness, drunkenness, surfeiting, and the like. 6. Most of all the acts themselves, of unchastnesse in whoredom, adultery, fornication, and the like.