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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 48: The forty eighth Lords day. On the second 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.
Rea. 3. Because nothing is more contrary to the glory of Gods name, than the impairment of this Kingdom, or trenching upon it, or than the troubling and deforming of it.
Rea. 3. Because nothing is more contrary to the glory of Gods name, than the impairment of this Kingdome, or trenching upon it, or than the troubling and deforming of it.
Use, Of Direction and Exhortation, that first of all we seek the Kingdom of God.
Use, Of Direction and Exhortation, that first of all we seek the Kingdome of God.
Doct. 2. This Kingdom is not set up, nor brought about by any other, than God himself.
Doct. 2. This Kingdome is not set up, nor brought about by any other, than God himself.
This is hence gathered, in that the coming hereof is sought from God alone, as the author and principal cause and procurer of it.