A25294:1424
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 51: The one and fifty Lords day. On the fifth 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.
The one and fifty Lords day. On the fifth Petition of the Lords Prayer:
Forgive us our debts, &c.
The following Petitions, treats of the removing of spiritual evil, or sin: And sin is two ways removed; either 1. by forgiveness of sin committed; or 2. by preservation from sin, that it be not committed: The first is the substance of the fifth Petition; the last of the sixth and last: In the fifth the Petition is proposed, and then afterwards it is confirmed. In the Petition because sins are chiefly considered, as to their adjoined guilt: therefore 1. they are under that notion by a metaphor, or ⟨p. 294⟩simile marked out to us, and declared, when they are called debts: The reason of the simile or metaphor is, because by the law and justice, we are bound to God, to give him entire obedience; and for omission of any part, or point of this whole or entire obedience, we were bound to undergo the punishment or penalty of the curse of the law. Sins therefore are called debts. 1▪ Because of the want of that obedience▪ in them, which we owed to God. 2 Because they did bring with them an obligation of undergoing those punishments.