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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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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.
Its gathered out of these words; Upon the children of disobedience or stubbornness: So they are named here, as men, whose condition is much to be abhorred, and whose example and company is most to be shunned, as appears from vers. 7. be not therefore partakers, &c.
Its gathered out of these words; Upon the children of disobedience or stubbornnesse: So they are named here, as men, whose condition is much to be abhorred, and whose example and company is most to be shunned, as appears from vers. 7. be not therefore partakers, &c.
Reas. 1. Because such men serve a most miserable servitude to a very base Master, that is, to sin: for sin exercises a spiritual Kingly power and dominion over them, because they do all that the lusts of sin commands them; and can by no means be persuaded to shake off that slavish yoke; and so much the less, as they perceive that slavery, by so much are they the more fully under its command, because by this means it comes to pass, that their very will it self, and the spirit of their mind is ⟨p. 26⟩possessed by this slavery and oppressed: For as a brute or a man that comes near to a brute, serving some cruel Master, takes no thought for that his condition, because of his stupidity; neither cares nor wishes for a better; is a more full and perfect slave, than some free-born and free-minded man, who is by force constrained to serve one, but yet under such servitude and force, keeps a free mind▪ even so it fares in this matter.
Reas. 1. Because such men serve a most miserable servitude to a very base Master, that is, to sin: for sin exercises a spiritual Kingly power and dominion over them, because they do all that the lusts of sin commands them; and can by no means be perswaded to shake off that slavish yoke; and so much the lesse, as they perceive that slavery, by so much are they the more fully under its command, because by this means it comes to passe, that their very will it selfe, and the spirit of their minde is ⟨p. 26⟩