A25294:1379
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.
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.
Reas. 2. Because there are so many things both in us and without us, that fight against this good will of God; that unless God gave us to will and to do what he will's, and kept us in this mind, we should never be able to attain it.
Reas. 2. Because there are so many things both in us and without us, that fight against this good will of God; that unlesse God gave us to will and to do what he will's, and kept us in this minde, we should never be able to attain it.
Reas. 3. Because God ought to have all the glory of any good, which yet could not be given him, unless he were the Author and giver of all good.
Reas. 3. Because God ought to have all the glory of any good, which yet could not be given him, unlesse he were the Author and giver of all good.