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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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For the highest power and sovereignty was required to dissolve the works of the Devil, and the bonds of death and the grave, for raising of dead men to life again, for guiding and protecting them so, as they might be brought to life eternal, maugre all opposition of their enemy; and most of all for laying that ground stone of the whole, and uniting the second person of the Deity, his own Son, and the nature of man, into one Person. From the immutability also of his decree, it was in some sort necessary for God to procure their deliverance from death, whom from eternity he had chosen, and appointed unto life. Hence a twofold necessity of the restoration and liberation of mankind is rightly by some determined; on our part, the necessity of want; on Gods part, the necessity of his immutability.
For the highest power and soveraignty was required to dissolve the works of the Devill, and the bonds of death and the grave, for raising of dead men to life again, for guiding and protecting them so, as they might be brought to life eternal, maugre all opposition of their enemy; and most of all for laying that groundstone of the whole, and uniting the second person of the Deity, his own Son, and the nature of man, into one Person. From the immutability also of his decree, it was in some sort necessary for God to procure their deliverance from death, whom from eternity he had chosen, and appointed unto life. Hence a twofold necessity of the restauration and liberation of mankind is rightly by some determined; on our part, the necessity of want; on Gods part, the necessity of his immutability.
Use, Of Exhortation, that with all admiration we behold and look into this good will of God, and with all thankfulness as well in our thoughts, as in ⟨p. 34⟩our speeches, all our life time we publish and praise it.