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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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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 3. Because there be many things without us, that belong to the sanctifying of Gods name, that cannot be brought to any effect by us, but by the special and powerful working of God himself.
Reas 3. Because there be many things without us, that belong to the sanctifying of Gods name, that cannot be brought to any effect by us, but by the special and powerfull working of God himself.
Use▪ Of Information, that by this we may understand, that all the duties that we perform unto God are Gods own gifts. For nothing can be by us offered unto God for sanctifying of his name, unless ⟨p. 279⟩that first were freely given us of God. And thus God is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, in all that spiritual communion, that we have with him. First he forgives us our sins; then he gives us the grace both to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing in his sight; and lastly, all these his own gifts he crowns in us, both with grace to the end, and glory in the end.
Use▪ Of Information, that by this we may understand, that all the duties that we perform unto God are Gods owne gifts. For nothing can be by us offered unto God for sanctifying of his name, unless ⟨p. 279⟩that first were freely given us of God. And thus God is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, in all that spiritual communion, that we have with him. First he forgives us our sins; then he gives us the grace both to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing in his sight; and lastly, all these his owne gifts he crownes in us, both with grace to the end, and glory in the end.