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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.
Use 1. Is of Instruction, to establish our Faith, concerning the Godhead of Christ; because none either can or may be called our Lord absolutely, or God of the Church, except God alone. For,
First, God only is the Lord of mans life, and of such things as belong to the goods of nature. For Magistrates and Commonwealths are only by Gods institution keepers of the lives of their subjects under them, in order to the public good of all: and every Citizen or Subject is but a tutor and keeper of his own life, and no absolute Lord, or maker of it.
First, God onely is the Lord of mans life, and of such things as belong to the goods of nature. For Magistrates and Commonwealths are onely by Gods institution keepers of the lives of their subjects under them, in order to the publick good of all: and every Citizen or Subject is but a tutor and keeper of his own life, and no absolute Lord, or maker of it.
Secondly, God only may use, or apply to his use the whole man according to his own free arbitrement.
Secondly, God onely may use, or apply to his use the whole man according to his own free arbitrement.