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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.
Doct. 1. Jesus Christ saveth us from all our sins.
Doct. 1. Iesus Christ saveth us from all our sins.
This is it that is signified by the appellation of his name; and is proper to the name, containing in it self the whole sum of our Redemption, and its application: The end also of his incarnation, humiliation, and exaltation. Now Christ saves us by his satisfaction, merit, and efficacy. By satisfaction, because he removes the guilt of sin and wrath of God, that were the hinderances of our safety, and could not be removed by us. By his merit, because he procures to us the favour and right to all those blessings, that use to be communicated to the sons of God. By his efficacy, because by his Spirit he effects indeed, & works all in us that belongs to our salvation. In this sort therefore doth he save us from all our sins, as to the guilt, to the punishment, and to the and duration, to the defilement.
This is it that is signified by the appellation of his name; and is proper to the name, containing in it self the whole summe of our Redemption, and its application: The end also of his incarnation, humiliation, and exaltation. Now Christ saves us by his satisfaction, merit, and efficacy. By satisfaction, because he removes the guilt of sin and wrath of God, that were the hinderances of our safety, and could not be removed by us. By his merit, because he procures to us the favour and right to all those blessings, that use to be communicated to the sonnes of God. By his efficacy, because by his Spirit he effects indeed, & works all in us that belongs to our salvation. In this sort therefore doth he save us from all our sins, as to the guilt, to the punishment, and to the andduration, to the defilement.
Reas. 1. Because he was given of God his Father for this end; that is, he was for that end eternally predestinated, from the beginning promised; in the fullness of time exhibited, for this end, I say (as himself professeth) that he might save sinners; in which speech the Apostle Paul glorieth much, as in a […] 1 Tim. . 5.