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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.
Doct. 4. It is a great benefit of God to us, when we see his name to be hallowed or glorified.
For here we seek this first, as our principal desire and benefit, that the name of God may be hallowed.
Reas. 1. Because this hallowing of Gods name, turns always to the profit and building up of the children of God, who in some sort are made partakers of his glory.
Reas. 1. Because this hallowing of Gods name, turnes alwayes to the profit and building up of the children of God, who in some sort are made partakers of his glory.
Reas. 2. Because all such as love God above all things else, are made possessors of their chief desire, when they see the name of God to be hallowed and glorified.