A25294:1481
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.
Doct. 4. Our Father that is in Heaven, disposeth also of our temptations according to his own good pleasure.
Doct. 4. Our Father that is in Heaven, disposeth also of our temptations according to his owne good pleasure.
For thus it is here held out to us, that it is he, that either leads us into temptation, or causes us not to be brought into it; but kept from it.
Reas. 1. Because he exercises his providence in guiding and measuring of every temptation.
Reas▪ 2. From him depends the strengthening of our souls against such temptations, as we are vexed with.
Reas▪ 2. From him depends the strengthening of our soules against such temptations, as we are vexed with.