A25294:1161
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.
This is commanded in the same words, that the contrary faults are forbidden by, according to the constant use of speech in the decalogue.
Reas. 1. Because this cleanness is a part of our inward sanctification.
Reas. 1. Because this cleannese is a part of our inward sanctification.
Reas 2. Because from this part of our sanctification a special sort of honour ariseth, 1 Thes. 4. 4. While our bodies are not made drudges for the fulfilling the base and vile affections of the flesh, but are applied unto nobler uses.
Reas▪ 3. Because this purity is needful, that we may be fit to worship God, as we should. For carnal impurity where it prevails and gets the dominion, it not only presses down and burdens the mind, so that it cannot raise up it self unto spiritual thoughts and affections, but also it infecteth with contagion, and pollutes those very thoughts and endeavours, whereby we seek after and breath for spiritual life.