A25294:1368
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 49: The forty nineth Lords day. On the third 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.
This flows from the former connection already shown.
This flows from the former connexion already shown.
Reas. 1. Because reverence to the name of God, which is the hallowing or glorifying of it, brings with it of necessity obedience to his will.
Reas. 2. In this very thing, that we subject our selves to the will of God, we give God glory and power, and command over our very souls and lives; and so we highly glorify him.
Reas. 2. In this very thing, that we subject our selves to the will of God, we give God glory and power, and command over our very souls and lives; and so we highly glorifie him.
Reas. 3. By this doing of the will of God, the kingdom of God comes to be within us; and within us is his place of majesty and state, and his throne powerfully set up to him, in our hearts.
Reas. 3. By this doing of the will of God, the kingdome of God comes to be within us; and within us is his place of maesty and state, and his throne powerfully set up to him, in our hearts.