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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 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.
It is gathered from these words; and for or by thy pleasure or will, &c. There be some Philosophers that have said, that all created things do come from God by way of emanation, as little rivulets come and flow from their Fountain. But that which doth proceed in this kind, must be part of that River from whence it flows, which cannot properly be affirmed of things created, if we reflect on God the Creator. Others are of opinion that the universe came from the Creator, even as the form or fashion of him that looketh into a glass passeth from him into the glass. Neither is this fitting to be affirmed, because the universe is in no other subject, as the shape is represented in a glass or mirror. Others have said, that the universe went from God, as a shadow from its body. But this is altogether impertinent, because a shadow goes not out of its body, but follows it by a privation of light, and by reason of the interposition of the opacous or gross body between the light and that place. Others have said, that the universe went forth from the Creator, like […] the footstep is made by the print of the foot of one that walks. But God had nothing without himself, upon which by his walking he could imprint