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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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Use Of Admonition, that we may chiefly care for and go about this, that we may both be and remain in Christ, and live in him; because without this union with him, we cannot come to be saved. The sign or mark, whereby we know, that is ordinarily, or according to the order of means appointed, that this or that man is in Christ, is this, if drawing virtue from Christ, as a branch drawing spiritual •ap from the stock, he hath care to bring forth fruits to him and in him, John 15. verse […], 4.
Use Of Admonition, that we may chiefly care for and go about this, that we may both be and remain in Christ, and live in him; because without this union with him, we cannot come to be saved. The signe or mark, whereby we know, that is ordinarily, or according to the order of means appointed, that this or that man is in Christ, is this, if drawing vertue from Christ, as a branch drawing spirituall •ap from the stock, he hath care to bring forth fruits to him and in him, Iohn 15. verse 〈…〉, 4.
Doct. 2. Faith is the tie whereby we are first united to Christ, and ingrafted into him.
Doct. 2. Faith is the tye whereby we are first united to Christ, and ingrafted into him.
This Doctrine is couched in the Text, in the word believe: for there are three ties of Union, whereof there is need in our conjunction with God, ⟨p. 48⟩