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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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Reason 1. Because nothing in the whole Gospel is promised to any that hath yet no affiance or trust in Christ; before this affiance therefore, nothing can be known, that hath the virtue to justify, until it be trusted on; and therefore no knowledge going before this faith of affiance, can justify.
Reason 1. Because nothing in the whole Gospell is promised to any that hath yet no affiance or trust in Christ; before this affiance therefore, nothing can be known, that hath the vertue to justify, until it be trusted on; and therefore no knowledge going before this faith of affiance, can justify.
Reas. 2. We cannot conceive any knowledge before this affiance, which is not found sometimes in such as are not justified: As for example, such as have a spirit of illumination and light, but not of regeneration; and therefore fall away afterwards from that glory, which inseparably follows justification, sinning against the Holy Ghost.
Reas. 2. We cannot conceive any knowledge before this affiance, which is not found sometimes in such as are not justified: As for example, such as have a spirit of illumination and light, but not of regeneration; and therefore fall away afterwards from that glory, which inseparably followes justification, sinning against the Holy Ghost.
Reas. 3 Because in every part of Religion, and so in Faith also, these two things are distinguished; to wit, to know and to do. To know what is to be believed, and what all ought to believe; and to give assent to truths that are to be believed, is not yet to do that which believing imports, and is the proper obedience of Faith it self, which is the root of all other obedience, and therefore jointly to be understood under this, as both comes from Faith,