A25294:1449
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 none can earnestly desire the blotting out of his sins, unless he both confess and also hate and detest them.
Reas. 2. Because otherwise he can by no means rightly magnify the mercy of God, whereunto he flies; but rather goes about to prostitute it, and make it a Pander or Baud to his sins.
Reas. 2. Because otherwise he can by no meanes rightly magnify the mercy of God, whereunto he flies; but rather goes about to prostitute it, and make it a Pander or Baud to his sins.
Reas. 3. Because without these, none is fitted for receiving comfort from the mercy of God in remission of his sins.
Use, Of Reproof, against such as presume on the mercy of God, though they never thus seriously repent of their sins, nor can be brought to confess or acknowledge their cruel dispositions to men.
Use, Of Reproof, against such as presume on the mercy of God, though they never thus seriously repent of their sins, nor can be brought to confess or acknowledge their cruell dispositious to men.