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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 2. Is of Direction, that we may always set the the eye of our faith directly upon Christ, or on the grace and mercy of God in him, that so we may from him draw Righteousness and Salvation.
Use 2. Is of Direction, that we may alwayes set the the eye of our faith directly upon Christ, or on the grace and mercy of God in him, that so we may from him draw Righteousness and Salvation.
Doct. 4. Justifying & saving faith consists not properly in any knowledge, but in certain, solid or sound affiance or trust.
Doct. 4. Iustifying & saving faith consists not properly in any knowledge, but in certain, solid or sound affiance or trust.
Justifying Faith is an act and fruit of the experience of Faith; and not the first affiance and trust, that justifies. Our Doctrine is hence gathered, in that the object of Faith in this place, is no intellectual or logical truth, as such; but some good, as the object of the practical mind & of preelection, viz. the means of salvation, which is a single or incomplex term (as Logicians call it) in these words; on the Lord Jesus Christ; where not any thing of or about Christ, but Christ himself is the object. Next, because Faith is said to be busied about this object, as about a prop or stay; so that the heart of a man otherwise destitute of all help, and about to run into despair, casts it self upon Christ, as a stay, that by him it may be sustained and upheld; which is intimated by this phrase, believe in our Lord Jesus Christ. By affiance, we understand not any assent or act of the understanding about logical truth, or affirmation, or negation; nor yet properly the confident expectation of the will, which is assigned to our hope, and confidence therein contained, or from thence arising; but that act of the will or heart, which properly is called eection or choice: whereby we rely upon Christ, repose and rest on him, and adhere to him, as a fit and sufficient Mediator, by whom we