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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 the Law promiseth no good to miserable sinners, but only to just persons, and such as keep it.
Reas 1. Because the Law promiseth no good to miserable sinners, but onely to just persons, and such as keep it.
Reason 2. Because in it self, it hath no force of taking away sin, but only of punishing it.
Reason 2. Because in it self, it hath no force of taking away sin, but onely of punishing it.
Reas 3. Because by no sinner can it be fulfilled, and that because of the weakness of the flesh, or the impotency of carnal and fallen mankind, as it is in the Text.
Reas 3. Because by no sinner can it be fulfilled, and that because of the weakness of the flesh, or the impotency of carnall and fallen mankind, as it is in the Text.
Reas. 4. Because though it might be fulfilled for time to come, yet by-past sins would take away all hope of receiving the reward of Life from the Law. Hence is it that the Law is called a killing ltter, and the minister of death and of condemnation.