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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 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 ⟨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.
Doct. 2. Christ assumed this humane nature from Mary, as from his Mother.
For though he is said in the Text to be begotten in her; yet elsewhere he is said to be made after the flesh of the seed of a woman; and a woman is said to have conceived him, and to have born him as her son; hence also he is called the son of Mary, the son of David, the son of Abraham, and the like; whereby that phrase is expounded, and the truth of it confirmed.