A25294:1501
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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Reas. 2. Because this is a most powerful motive, to obtain what we seek, if in all things we give God his glory.
Reas. 2. Because this is a most powerfull motive, to obtain what we seek, if in all things we give God his glory.
Reas. 3. Because it is a chief part of worship.
Use, Of Reproof, against our negligence on this behalf, who are so wholly taken up with the things that belong to our own necessities, that we neglect the giving God his honour by duly praising of his name; when yet it is the sole thing aimed at in this prayer of our Lords, that the glory of God may have the first and the last place, as the Alpha and Omega of all his worship, the beginning and the end of •ight serving him. For the first petition is about ⟨p. 305⟩the hallowing or glorifying of his name; and the last conclusion is the extolling and praising of him to the same glory.
Use, Of Reprof, against our negligence on this behalf, who are so wholly taken up with the things that belong to our own necessities, that we neglect the giving God his honour by duly praising of his name; when yet it is the sole thing aimed at in this prayer of our Lords, that the glory of God may have the first and the last place, as the Alpha and Omega of all his worship, the beginning and the end of •ight serving him. For the first petition is about ⟨p. 305⟩the hallowing or glorifying of his name; and the last conclusion is the extolling and praising of him to the same glory.