A25294:1464
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 52: The fifty second Lords day. On the sixth 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 sin being an aversion, or turning away from God, therefore it deserves, that he should turn away himself, and his grace from us.
Reas. 1. Because sin being an aversion, or turning away from God, therefore it deserves, that he should turne away himself, and his grace from us.
Reas. 2. Because for sin, we both give our selves up as it were servants to sin, and to him that tempts to sin; We deserve therefore directly, and very rightly, that we should be given to such masters, as we our selves have chosen.
Reas. 3 When we rush into sin, we neglect that grace of God, by which we might have been preserved from sin; and therefore we deserve to be deserted by him.
Use 1. Of Admonition▪ that we so much the more take care to keep our selves from sin.