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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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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.
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.
Thirdly, The things that belong to the goods of grace, are of a more noble rank, than those of nature. If therefore God alone be Lord of this natural life, than much more must it be granted, that he is only Lord of grace and spiritual life.
Thirdly, The things that belong to the goods of grace, are of a more noble rank, than those of nature. If therefore God alone be Lord of this natural life, than much more must it be granted, that he is onely Lord of grace and spiritual life.
Fourthly, He that dischargeth the part of Lord of the Church of God, ought of necessity to be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, because to him belongs to have the care over the Church, and all its members dispersed over all the earth, and under the whole compass of heaven, and to direct them in all their ways, and defend them against all sorts of evils, and lastly, to heap upon them all sort of good to their happiness. Seeing then this is the sole•e title of Christ, that he is Lord in the ⟨p. 96⟩Church of God, it follows necessarily that he is also essentially and by nature God, and not by office only.
Fourthly, He that dischargeth the part of Lord of the Church of God, ought of necessiity to be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, because to him belongs to have the care over the Church, and all its members dispersed over all the earth, and under the whole compass of heaven, and to direct them in all their wayes, and defend them against all sorts of evills, and lastly, to heap upon them all sort of good to their happiness. Seeing then this is the solee title of Christ, that he is Lord in the