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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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2. It is confirmed by rejecting of all vain shifts, in these words; Let no man deceive you.
The Explication, by the wrath of God. 1. Is understood Gods vindicative justice. 2. His will to inflict punishment according to that justice. 3. The punishment it self, that is so inflicted. And in this place most properly the punishment is understood, which in other places is often called death, distress, severities, hot anger, and the like. This wrath of God, is said to come against, or upon men, because ⟨p. 25⟩as it were coming down from Heaven, it suddenly falls upon and overwhelms, and holds as entangled in a net the sinners; so that by no means they can escape it. In the same sense, that not unlike phrase is used, Rom. 1. 18. by the expression of the children of contumacy or stubbornness, upon whom this wrath comes, those sinners are understood, which can by no means be persuaded to leave their sins and seek God by true faith and repentance; where this is to be marked, that [Greek or Hebrew] may be turned both children of incredulity, and children of disobedience; but it agrees better to this place, to be turned children of disobedience and of rebellion; because we read not this phrase, the children of saith, but of obedience, 1 Pet. 1. 14.
The Explication, by the wrath of God. 1. Is understood Gods vindicative justice. 2. His will to inflict punishment according to that justice. 3. The punishment it self, that is so inflicted. And in this place most properly the punishment is understood, which in other places is often called death, distress, severities, hot anger, and the like. This wrath of God, is said to come against, or upon men, because ⟨p. 25⟩as it were coming down from Heaven, it suddenly fals upon and overwhelms, and holds as intangled in a net the sinners; so that by no means they can escape it. In the same sense, that not unlike phrase is used,