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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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Doct. 3. No sinner can deliver himself from this misery.
This is thus gathered, because none go above the Law. For if the Law cannot for the weakness of our flesh, then neither can we our selves, for the same weakness of our flesh.
Reason 1. No debt can duly be blotted out by the debtor; till payed.
Reas. 2. Because, though any one never augmented his first debt, by sinning, yet should he in all this do no more, but pay what he owes, in so doing; and so could not by that means make satisfaction for his former transgression.
Reas. 3. Because, if man could not preserve himself, nor did not do it, in that integrity wherein he was created, it cannot reasonably be thought that now he can recover it again.