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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. The essential worth of the mediatory obedience and passion of Christ, which properly agreed to him, according to the humane nature, ought to have been also in some kind divine; but that divinity of worth is derived from the person, or this union; as the esteem of all the actions and passions depends upon the person; and therefore ⟨p. 43⟩the humane nature ought to have subsisted, and been sustained in the nature or person divine.
Reas. 3. The essential worth of the mediatory obedience and passion of Christ, which properly agreed to him, according to the humane nature, ought to have been also in some kinde divine; but that divinity of worth is derived from the person, or this union; as the esteem of all the actions and passions depends upon the person; and therefore ⟨p. 43⟩the humane nature ought to have subsisted, and been sustained in the nature or person divine.
Use 1. Of Instruction, for directing and establishing our Faith, about the person of Christ, that we may neither here imagine confusion of the natures, nor multiplication of the Persons in any sort; but the union only of two natures into one and a single person, to wit, the second person of the Trinity, which is the primary principle of Christian Faith.
Use 1. Of Instruction, for directing and establishing our Faith, about the person of Christ, that we may neither here imagine confusion of the natures, nor multiplication of the Persons in any sort; but the union onely of two natures into one and a single person, to wit, the second person of the Trinity, which is the primary principle of Christian Faith.