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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.
The thirteenth Lords day.
Mat. 16. 16. Thou art Christ the Son of the living God.
This is Peter's answer to the question propounded by Christ to the Apostles. The question was about their judgement and faith, as to the person of our Saviour. In the answer, there is contained the confession of the Disciples concerning Christ, and together with this, a description of Christ. In this description the person of our Saviour is described; 1. From his office, Thou art Christ. 2. From his essence, which is pointed out to us by his essential relation to that principle, from whence he came forth. This principle is God, who is illustrated by his attribute of life, the living God. The relation of our Saviour to God, is that of a Son to a Father; the Son of the living God. And he is also illustrated by a tacit comparison of that unlikeness, that is between this Son and others that use to get the same name also: And this comparison is illustrated to us in the particle prefixed to Son; the Son, or that Sonne.
THis is Peter's answer to the question propounded by Christ to the Apostles. The question was about their judgement and faith, as to the person of our Saviour. In the answer, there is contained the confession of the Disciples concerning Christ, and together with this, a description of Christ. In this description the person of our Saviour is described; 1. From his office, Thou art Christ. 2. From his essence, which is pointed out to us by his essential relation to that principle, from whence he came forth. This principle is God, who is illustrated by his attribute of life, the living God. The relation of our Saviour to God, is that of a Son to a Father; the Son of the living God. And he is also illustrated by a tacite comparison of that unlikeness, that is between this Son and others that use to get the same name also: And this comparison is illustrated to us in the particle prefixt to Sonne; the Sonne, or that Sonne.