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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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Reas. 3 Because if we were redeemed by a mere creature, for this very cause we should become the ⟨p. 36⟩servants of that mere creature, and that of justice and gratitude; as we are the servants of Christ our Redeemer, because our Redeemer, as is already taught. But this would be an unworthy thing, and would infer a kind of contradiction to it self: For seeing man before his fall was not the servant of any creature, but of God alone; if by redemption he should become the servant of any creature, he should not be redeemed and restored into that perfect liberty, from which he fell; and so though redeemed (as we suppose) yet he should not be properly redeemed, that is, by redemption made free.
Reas. 3 Because if we were redeemed by a meer creature, for this very cause we should become the ⟨p. 36⟩servants of that meer creature, and that of justice and gratitude; as we are the servants of Christ our Redeemer, because our Redeemer, as is already taught. But this would be an unworthy thing, and would infer a kind of contradiction to it self: For seeing man before his fall was not the servant of any creature, but of God alone; if by redemption he should become the servant of any creature, he should not be redeemed and restored into that perfect liberty, from which he fell; and so though redeemed (as we suppose) yet he should not be properly redeemed, that is, by redemption made free.
Reas. 4. The evils that are to be removed from us, are greater than can be taken away by any mere creature; as the wrath of God infinite and eternal, the guilt of sin confirmed by the force of an eternal law; the command that sin and death hath over us. Of these that is true which we have, Luke 10. 21, 22.
Reas. 4. The evills that are to be removed from us, are greater than can be taken away by any meer creature; as the wrath of God infinite and eternal, the guilt of sin confirmed by the force of an eternal law; the command that sin and death hath over us. Of these that is true which we have,