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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The ninth Lords day.
Rev. 4. 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, that thou shouldst have glory, and honour, and power; because thou didst create all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created.
A Reason is given in these words, why all glory should be given to God; and it is taken from the effects. For that is more praise-worthy, that it be taken from the effects, because the power and virtue of the cause, whereunto the praise is due, exists and is properly seen in its effects. The effect of God is creation, which in this place is illustrated, ⟨p. 63⟩First, By his effects, which are declared by the universality conjoined with them in these words; because thou didst create all things. Secondly, From his manner of creating; that God out of a wise purpose created all things; and for thy pleasure, &c. Thirdly, From the adjunct of duration or lasting, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created. For one thing is understood by the words, they are, and another by, thou createdst, &c. as might be evident from the tense, thou createdst in the preter-tense; they now are in the present-tense, by which the duration of things is evident.
A Reason is given in these words, why all glory should be given to God; and it is taken from the effects. For that is more praise-worthy, that it be taken from the effects, because the power and virtue of the cause, whereunto the praise is due, exists and is properly seen in its effects. The effect of God is creation, which in this place is illustrated,