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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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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. 4. Tis as it were a bargain, in which the sinner for the enjoyment or use of some short pleasure, out of a madness sells himself into slavery.
Reas. 4. Tis as it were a bargain, in which the sinner for the enjoyment or use of some short pleasure, out of a madnesse sells himself into slavery.
Now from a bargain of buying and selling, though passed in a short time, the right is conveyed to the buyer for ever; and the alienation is eternal or endless in its own way.
Now from a bargain of buying and selling, though passed in a short time, the right is conveyed to the buyer for ever; and the alienation is eternal or endlesse in its own way.
Reason 1. It is as it were the putting out of a lamp; for a sinner once drowning himself in the filth of sin, puts out as it were the whole light of his mind; and a lamp once put out, though it be done in a moment, yet by virtue of that putting out, remains of its self endlessly extinct and put out.
Reason 1. It is as it were the putting out of a lamp; for a sinner once drowning himself in the •ilth of sin, puts out as it were the whole light of his mind; and a lamp once put out, though it be done in a moment, yet by vertue of that putting out, remains of its self endlesly extinct and put out.