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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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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.
Reas 1. Because they are most opposite to the chief good; that is, unto the image and holiness of God, as they may be partaken of by us, to our felicity; and so some way to God himself. Whose will, as much as in us lay, we have violated.
Reas 1. Because they are most opposite to the chief good; that is, unto the image and holinesse of God, as they may be partaken of by us, to our felicity; and so some way to God himself. Whose will, as much as in us lay, we have violated.
Reas. 2. Because they spoil us of our greatest perfection.
Reas. 2. Because they spoyl us of our greatest perfection.
Reas. 3. Because they beget unto us the greatest miseries.
Use, Of Direction, that having a right esteem of our sins, we may the more abhor them, and all other evil that comes by them.
Use, Of Direction, that having a right esteem of our sins, we may the more abhor them, and all other evill that comes by them.