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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.
Reas. 2. Because if God attained not his purposed end, then would he suffer some change in his blessedness and happiness of condition; because it is a more blessed thing to have all ones desires and purposes fulfilled, than to fall beside some of them.
Reas. 3. Because thence also would follow diminution of Gods eternal knowledge. For no wise man proposes that to himself to be attained, which from the beginning he knows, that he shall never attain.
Use 1. Is of Refutation, against such that turn divine providence into a humane providence.
Use 2. Of Consolation to all believers, to whom God hath promised, that he will provide and see for them, so as all things at last shall turn to their good and eternal happiness.
Doct. 2. This providence of God extends it self to all things. This is clear in the Text.