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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
Use 1. Of Condemnation, against such as remain in their carnal security and please themselves in this condition, over which perpetually hangs the so horrible wrath and anger of God.