A25294:1517
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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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 as at the end our prayer is as it were come to its perfection, so we ought there to exercise the perfection of our faith, affection, conscience, and desire.
Reas. 2 Because every natural and kindly motion grows stronger and faster towards its end; otherwise if it be flashy in the beginning, and flag towards the end, it is a token it was forced, or framed upon some wrong ground, and will not prove durable and kindly unto the end.
Reas. 2 Because every natural and kindly motion growes stronger and faster towards its end; otherwise if it be flashy in the beginning, and flag towards the end, it is a token it was forced, or framed upon some wrong ground, and will not prove durable and kindly unto the end.
Reas. 3 Because our affection in the end of prayer ought then to act from the doubled and recollected force and power of all the affections going before.
Reas. 4▪ Because by this means in a sort we redouble our whole prayer, while first we propose all our petitions one by one in order, with their own measure of desire and affection; and thereafter press vehemently and earnestly for them all together, that they may all be granted us, and so according to our earnestness, est as confident that they will.