A25294:1373
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 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.
Doct. 2. The revealed will of God should be the rule of our life.
Doct. 2. The revealed will of God sh•uld be the rule of our life.
This follows from the substance of the Petition. Reas. 1. Because the will of God is the law, partly, written in our hearts, and partly revealed in the Scriptures for this very end, that according to it, we should direct our ways.
This follows from the substance of the Petition. Reas. 1. Because the will of God is the law, partly, written in our hearts, and partly revealed in the Scriptures for this very end, that according to it, we should direct our wayes.
Reas. 2. Because it contains in it self all perfection, which belongs to the imprinting upon us the image of God, and making of our life divine.
Reas. 3. Because according to this will, and the doing of it, God both in this life, and in the life to come, distributes and disposeth of all rewards and punishments.