A25294:1436
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 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.
It is hence gathered, that they are here called debts.
Reas. 1. Because the Law of God binds sinners to suffer pains, and that no common ones, but of the wrath and curse of God.
Reas. 1. Because the Law of God bindes sinners to suffer paines, and that no common ones, but of the wrath and curse of God.
Reas. 2. Because this debt is such, that for it, we can never be able to satisfy God. For whatsoever sinners do, it rather augments, than diminisheth the nature, or account of the debt.
Reas. 3 Because the justice of God exacting so rigorous a discharge of this debt for sinners, is still upon them, and is as it were perpetually threatening condemnation to them in their own consciences.
Reas. 3 Because the justice of God exacting so rigorous a discharge of this debt for sinners, is still upon them, and is as it were perpetually threatening condemnation to them in their owne consciences.