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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 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.
Reas. 3. Because God often vouchsafes us this honour, to be made some way instruments of hallowing and glorifying his name; and this ought to be acknowledged for a great honour and benefit.
Use▪ Of Reproof, against the base and earthly minds of men, that are more taken with a little profit of the things of this world, than with the glorious hallowing of the name of God.