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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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Reas▪ 5▪ This providence is extended not only to things that of necessity are, or must be, but to contingents also, or things voluntary; because contingents, they are mutable, and subject to many casualties, coming from the course of many causes, & do most of all require the government of a superior power, that they may be rightly ordered, left all should run into confusion. And voluntary things are of a most noble operation, and of a higher nature, than any natural things are, and therefore most of all do depend upon Gods care for them and over them. And these things are so cared for of God, that their nature is not thereby overthrown, but established and governed. For it is rightly said of divine providence, that though it attains to its end with strength, yet even in doing so, it disposeth all things sweetly; that is, according to the nature of all and each, that he himself put into them in the Creation, and yet conserves and governs by his providence. For there is nothing in Gods providence that brings a necessity upon any thing properly so called; but only a certainty ⟨p. 77⟩which no ways withstand the nature of contingency and liberty.
Reas▪ 5▪ This providence is extended not onely to things that of necessity are, or must be, but to contingents also, or things voluntary; because contingents, they are mutable, and subject to many casualties, coming from the course of many causes, & do most of all require the government of a superior power, that they may be rightly ordered, left all should run into confusion. And voluntary things are of a most noble operation, and of a higher nature, than any natural things are, and therefore most of all do depend upon Gods care for them and over them. And these things are so cared for of God, that their nature is not thereby overthrown, but established and governed. For it is rightly said of divine providence, that though it attains to its end with strength, yet even in doing so, it disposeth all things sweetly; that is, according to the nature of all and each, that he himself put into them in the Creation, and yet conserves and governs by his providence. For there is nothing in Gods providence that brings a necessity upon any thing properly so called; but onely a certainty ⟨p. 77⟩