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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 1. Is of Instruction, that in this part of our faith, we study more and more solidity to ground and strengthen our selves, because this ground being well laid, our faith and affiance doth much more easily & freely make progress about all such things, as God hath revealed in his Word, that either he hath done, or will do about this world, or some parts of it, or other things that require the like might and power to that which was showed in the creation of the world.
Use 1. Is of Instruction, that in this part of our faith, we study more and more solidity to ground and strengthen our selves, because this ground being well laid, our faith and affiance doth much more easily & freely make progress about all such things, as God hath revealed in his Word, that either he hath done, or will do about this world, or some parts of it, or other things that require the like might and power to that which was snewed in the creation of the world.
Use 2. Is of Admonition, That we suffer not our minds to cleave to this world, or stick there, but that we lift them up higher, and adhere to him, that made the world. For it were a very great folly and perverseness, if after we know that all these things were made by God, we love the world better than God, and for the love of the world should forsake God.
Use 2. Is of Admonition, That we suffer not our mindes to cleave to this world, or stick there, but that we lift them up higher, and adhere to him, that made the world. For it were a very great folly and perverseness, if after we know that all these things were made by God, we love the world better than God, and for the love of the world should forsake God.
Doct. 2. God of his wise purpose and good pleasure created all things, not out of any necessity.