A25294:1288
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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It is gathered from the word, Our For though it be both lawful, and sometimes expedient and profitable, that a believer say in his prayers; O my Father, for manifesting his particular confidence in God; and not for designing any specialler sonship that he hath in God, than others; as Christ the Lord alone might and did use that form of speaking; yet even for designing our particular confidence, it ought never to be joined with excluding thoughts of others, but what ever our own particular feelings be, in respect of charity, & the judgment & desire thereof towards others, we ought always either expressly or impliedly, to call upon God, as the common Father, as of our selves, so of others also.
It is gathered from the word, Our For though it be both lawfull, and sometimes expedient and profitable, that a believer say in his prayers; O my Father, for manifesting his particular confidence in God; and not for designing any specialler sonship that he hath in God, than others; as Christ the Lord alone might and did use that forme of speaking; yet even for designing our particular confidence, it ought never to be joyned with excluding thoughts of others, but what ever our own particular feelings be, in respect of charity, & the judgment & desire thereof towards others, we ought alwayes either expresly or impliedly, to call upon God, as the common Father, as of our selves, so of others also.
Reas. 1. Because it belongs to our comfort, that we so call on God, as being members with others of that mystical body, whereunto God hath prepared and promised all good things.
Reas. 2. Because it belongs to the communion of ⟨p. 275⟩Saints, that they have a perpetual communication or mutual partaking and benefit of prayers amongst themselves.