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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. This of the divine and humane nature in Christ, is a mystery most divine.
Doct. 3. This of the divine and humane nature in Christ, is a mysterie most divine.
It is called a mystery, 1. As it contains in it self that divine wisdom of highest and rarest price, or that treasure of wisdom, 1 Cor. 2. 6, 7. 2 Cor. 4. v. 7. 2. Because this wisdom is a thing hidden and remote, not only from humane sense, but also from our understanding and comprehension. 1. Cor. 2. 7. 8, 9, 10. it is called a depth for this cause; so also Eph. 3. 8, 9. And it is called hidden or secret, 1. because it was not possible for the wit of man or Angels to have so much as thought upon, or devised such a means of Redemption and Salvation, much less to have gone through with it. 2. Because ⟨p. 44⟩it was not revealed to the Church her self for many ages, but under a certain veil, and sparingly. 3. Because by our selves now in the light of greatest revelation, it is not understood but very imperfectly, and in the least part of it. 1 Cor. 13. 12. in part; a little but in comparison of the whole; as in a glass, and like a riddle, do we know here, for the darkening and lessening of our knowledge by sin, which is signified by these phrases.
It is called a mystery, 1. As it contains in it self that divine wisdome of highest and rarest price, or that treasure of wisdome, 1 Cor. 2. 6, 7