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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Lecture 47: The forty seventh Lords day. On the first petition of the Lords prayer.
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. 1. Because the abundance of the heart is here chiefly regarded, according to which the mouth ought only to speak: And the abundance of the heart consists in such desires with zeal and fervour, or heat of affections.
Reas. 1. Because the abundance of the heart is here chiefly regarded, according to which the mouth ought onely to speak: And the abundance of the heart consists in such desires with zeal and fervour, or heat of affections.
Reas. 2. Because God knows what we stand in need of, so that a long and artificial or skilful expounding of things to God, is not needful, nor doth at all profit, further than it proceeds from an overflowing abundance of the heart.
Reas. 2. Because God knowes what we stand in need of, so that a long and artificial or skilfull expounding of things to God, is not needfull, nor doth at all profit, further than it proceeds from an overflowing abundance of the heart.
Use, Of Reproof, against such babblings, as being expressly condemned by Christ our Lord himself, are yet wilfully and professedly used by Papists; and by others also out of a lukewarm formality, in as much as they use a form of praying, but deny the power of it.
Use, Of Reproof, against such bablings, as being expresly condemned by Christ our Lord himself, are yet wilfully and professedly used by Papists; and by others also out of a lukewarme formality, in as much as they use a forme of praying, but deny the power of it.