A25294:1377
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.
Use Is of Admonition, that we deny our own carnal wills and affections or lusts, with all things that disagree from this will of God; and that we conform our selves altogether to it, which seems here to be insinuated to us in the particle thy, which is put here in opposition to our will, and to the lusts of this world.
Doct. 3. It is God that gives us both to will and to do any thing, that is according to his will.
Doct. 3. It is God that gives us both to will and to doe any thing, that is according to his will.
For this is the very thing, that here we seek of God.
Reas. 1. Because of our selves we can do nothing that is truly good, and pleasing to God, in a spiritual sort.