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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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The fourteenth Lords day.
Mat. 1. 20. But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.
Mat. 1. 20. But while he thought on these things, behold the Angell of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.
These words contain a reason given by the Angel of the Lord, why Joseph should receive his wife Mary. And the reason is, from removing the cause, for which Joseph might have been induced to put her away. Now the cause was, that she appeared to be with child by another than her own husband. This cause is removed, by putting another unblamable cause in its place; and this cause is determined by the Angel to be the Holy Ghost. The effect then is placed with its causes in this enunciation. The effect then is Jesus Christ, as to his humane ⟨p. 97⟩nature. The causes are two; to wit, the Holy Ghost, and the Virgin Mary. Mary is the efficient cause less principal, and supplier also of the material cause; but the Holy Ghost is the most principal and first cause, which brings the less principal efficient, and the material together into acting, for the production of this effect.