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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
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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.
Use 2. Is of Admonition, that with all care above all things else we go about this, to show this wrath of God, Matt. 3. 7. where also the way to shun it, is showed to be by repentance, verse 8. And yet ⟨p. 30⟩this is not so to be taken, as if this shunning lay in our repentance, as it is our action, and as if that had some virtue of freeing from the wrath of God; for Christ alone is our enfranchizer from the wrath to come, 1 Thess. 1. 10. We therefore truly flee from the wrath of God, when we fly to this mercy in Christ Jesus by true faith in him, and repentance unfeigned.
Use 2. Is of Admonition, that with all care above all things else we go about this, to shew this wrath of God,