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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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In this conjunction, when the flesh or humane nature is said to have been assumed, is so to be understood, that not only the essence of humane nature is assumed, ⟨p. 42⟩and all that necessarily follow the essence, but that also were assumed all the weaknesses, qualities, and common or universal defects (which follow not from nature, but from sin) that are in themselves sinless, and as they are si•les▪ only and penal; and these only are excepted that have in them the nature of sin, or tend of themselves to sin.
In this conjunction, when the flesh or humane nature is said to have been assumed, is so to be understood, that not onely the essence of humane nature is assumed, ⟨p. 42⟩and all that necessarily follow the essence, but that also were assumed all the weaknesses, qualities, and common or universal defects (which follow not from nature, but from sin) that are in themselves si•less, and as they are si•les▪ onely and penall; and these onely are excepted that have in them the nature of sin, or tend of themselves to sin.
Reas. 1. Because the mediatory actions of Christ ought to be both humane and divine, and all his actions are of the person, as of the principle which acteth; though they be of this or of that nature, as of the principle whereby, or by virtue of which they are extracted from the person Therefore the divine and humane nature ought jointly to subsist in one and the same person.
Reas. 1. Because the mediatory actions of Christ ought to be both humane and divine, and all his actions are of the person, as of the principle which acteth; though they be of this or of that nature, as of the principle whereby, or by vertue of which they are extracted from the person Therefore the divine and humane nature ought joyntly to subsist in one and the same person.