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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 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.
This is hence gathered, in that this is sought from God by a doubling of the same petition in a man• lead us not into, but deliver us from.
Reas. 1. Because a mischief to man lies in the prevalency of temptations, when he is not only tempted, and led somewhither unto temptation, but also led into it, so as he is inwrapped in it, and held entangled therein, after the will of the tempter Satan, and so is kept captive in the slavery of sin.
Reas. 1. Because a mischief to man lies in the prevaleuey of temptations, when he is not onely tempted, and led somewhither unto temptation, but also led into it, so as he is inwrapped in it, and held intangled therein, after the will of the tempter Sathan, and so is kept captive in the slavery of sin.
Reas. 2. Because so great is the force of temptations, and such is our natures slipperiness, and deceitfulness, that from this evil of temptation we cannot be delivered, but by God.
Reas. 2. Because so great is the force of temptations, and such is our natures slipperinesse, and deceitfulnesse, that from this evill of temptation we cannot be delivered, but by God.