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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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Use 1. Is of Direction, of our Faith and thoughts •bout Christ. For though we use the same words of Christ, and of our selves, in relation to God, for the poverty and want of peculiar, and more proper expressions; because God is called the father of Christ, and our Father; and we together with Christ are called the sons of God; yet we ought always to conceive all divine perfection in these titles and words, that are attributed to Christ; and in the same, as attributed unto us a far inferior dignity, yet which is sufficient enough to our consolation.
Use 1. Is of Direction, of our Faith and thoughts •bout Christ. For though we use the same words of Christ, and of our selves, in relation to God, for the •overty and want of peculiar, and more proper expressions; because God is called the father of Christ, and our Father; and we together with Christ are called the sonnes of God; yet we ought alwayes to conceive all divine perfection in these titles and words, that are attributed to Christ; and in the same, as attributed unto us a far inferiour dignity, yet which is sufficient enough to our consolation.
Use 2. Is of Information, how we ought to seek all that belong to our adoption, and happiness, only in Christ, and by him. For because Christ is that son of God, in whom is the principality, and all the excellency of divine filiation, or sonship; therefore in him, and by him, we always ought to seek all▪ our participation of this dignity, that we can have, or may crave.
Use 2. Is of Information, how we ought to seek all that belong to our adoption, and happiness, onely in Christ, and by him. For because Christ is that son of God, in whom is the principality, and all the excellency of divine filiation, or sonship; therefore in him, and by him, we alwayes ought to seek all▪ our participation of this dignity, that we can have, or may crave.