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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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To the Reader.
Some years are now passed, since it pleased divine providence to put a period to the life of Dr. William Ames, in whose death very many did interest themselves, as no indifferent mourners. Not only those, who either under the notion of Scholars or Friends were become his familiars; but universally all such, who had been sensible of enjoying the fruits of his labours: And who were fervent lovers of sound literature, purity of heavenly Doctrine, and godliness in sincerity of heart. Knowing indeed, that in Ames, the garden of learning had lost one of its choicest flowers, the fortress of truth, one of its stoutest defenders, Piety its most faithful favourite, the School a most able and reverent Doctor, and studious youth their most diligent instructor. That we have ⟨image 3⟩[…] […] […] […], those, who have derived […] […] of learning from […] […] […]; •und •able witnesses. In further testimony are those his elaborate […] in opposition to the Idolatrous tyranny of Popery, and the spreading gangrene of Arminianism, especially his *Coroni•, whereby he obtained the Crown in the conflict. As also those things which he Dedicated to both Religion and P•ty; his Marrow of Divinity▪ his Cases of Conscience, Explication of the Psalms, Pe•er, &c. And these his Catechistical Commentations, which indeed he designed for the private use of his Scholars upon whose entreaty he laid thn down: But things so eminently conducing to the public, were not to be confined to the narrower limits of private profit. Amongst those divers ways by which diverse do handle Catechistical Doctrine, this Author thought fit above all to make use of this method: He takes out of the Word of God a Text most apposite, resolves and explains it succinctly, then draws out examples containing Doctrinal instructions, and lastly, applies them to their several uses. If this shall be disgusted