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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.
Reas. 2. He would also take this our nature in its weak and low condition;
First, Because he would come down (as far as could be without sin) into the same very place and condition, out of which he intended to lift us up higher.
First, Because he would come down (as farre as could be without sin) into the same very place and condition, out of which he intended to lift us up higher.
Secondly, That by this means he might some way sanctify all the states and conditions of humane life, least any might imagine that any such low▪ ⟨p. 98⟩estate separateth a man from communion with Christ.
Thirdly, That he might leave this to us in his own experience as a pledge of his knowledge and like sufferings and affections with us, from whence he might look upon our infirmities.