A25294:1213
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 this contentment makes much for the quietness of our mind, and so for the happiness of our life.
Reas. 2. Because this contentment makes much for the quietnesse of our minde, and so for the happinesse of our life.
Reas. 3. Because the want of this content argues our too great love of the world, and of our selves; and it comes from a perverse affection, that we are not content with our lot▪
Use 1. Of Reproof, against such, as do, or think nothing else almost, than how they may compass such or such a worldly thing, that they have not; so that their whole life is nothing else but a continual exercise of avarice and ambition.
Use 1. Of Reproof, against such, as do, or think nothing else almost, than how they may compasse such or such a worldly thing, that they have not; so that their whole life is nothing else but a continual exercise of avarice and ambition.