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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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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.
Use 1. Is of Information, for establishing our Faith on this behalf, that we give no place to fantastical imaginations of Heretics, who impugn directly or indirectly, and fight against the humane nature of Christ; which sort of errors are some way countenanced by Papists, in their Doctrine of Transubstantiation; and by Ubiquitaries in theirs of Consubstantiation, in as much as they attribute omnipresence and other the like divine attributes to the humane nature, which is no way agreeable unto the same.
Use 1. Is of Information, for establishing our Faith on this behalf, that we give no place to phantastical imaginations of Hereticks, who impugne directly or indirectly, and fight against the humane nature of Christ; which sort of errours are some way countenanced by Papists, in their Doctrine of Transubstantiation; and by Ubiquitaries in theirs of Consubstantiation, in as much as they attribute omnipresence and other the like divine attributes to the humane nature, which is no way agreeable unto the same.