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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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Use 2. Is of Exhortation, to extol and solemnly to praise the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all admiration and thanksgiving, who not only vouchsafes to become man for us, but also in the nature of man disdained not to become an infant, to be conceived, and born after our manner; and to undergo other the like infirmities and humiliations for our sake; it is that the Apostle points at, Heb. 2. 16, 17.
Use 2. Is of Exhortation, to extoll and solemnly to praise the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all admiration and thanksgiving, who not only vouchsafes to become man for us, but also in the nature of man disdained not to become an infant, to be conceived, and born after our manner; and to undergo other the like infirmities and humiliations for our sake; it is that the Apostle points at, Heb. 2. 16, 17.
Use 3. Is of Consolation, that we should make no difference between an infant newly conceived, or born, and a perfect man, or one of age; or between any other conditions of the nature and life of man, as to our interest in Christ, as if any sinless condition of nature could make us less regardable by him, […] exclude us from him. For Christ descended to the lowest and imperfectest sinless degree and condition ⟨p. 99⟩of the life of man; in that he was, 1. conceived; and 2. shut up in his mothers womb the ordinary time of other births; and 3. born.
Use 3. Is of Consolation, that we should make no difference between an infant newly conceived, or born, and a perfect man, or one of age; or between any other conditions of the nature and life of man, as to our interest in Christ, as if any sinless condition of nature could make us less regardable by him, 〈…〉 exclude us from him. For Christ descended to the lowest and imperfectest sinless degree and condition