A25294:1387
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.
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.
Reas. 1. Because this is the best way to help our imperfections, if we always aim at the chiefest perfection.
Reas. 1. Because this is the best way to help our imperfections, if we alwayes aim at the chiefest perfection.
Reas. 2. Because we are called unto the same society and communion with those blessed spirits that are in Heaven, therefore we ought to aspire unto the imitation of them.
Reas. 3. Because we seek the same happiness and glory that they possess; and therefore ought to follow the same holiness.
Reas. 3. Because we seek the same happiness and glory that they possess; and therefore ought to follow the same holinesse.
Use, Is, that we always study to obey God with all cheerfulness, sincerity, readiness, and entireness, that in Scriptures are attributed to Angels in their obedience, as special properties and qualifications of the same.