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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 1. Is of Refutation, against Anabaptists, and such like, who fantastically think that the humanity of Christ only passed through Mary, and was not assumed from her nature. Of which imagination the first reason seems to have been, that some simple men could not conceive, how any could without sin be born of a woman after the fall. But the Anabaptists afterwards, though they took away this ground of their error, of denying original sin, yet they adhered to this conclusion of mere wilfulness, without any reason.
Use 1. Is of Refutation, against Anabaptists, and such like, who phantastically think that the humanity of Christ onely passed through Mary, and was not assumed from her nature. Of which imagination the first reason seems to have been, that some simple men could not conceive, how any could without sin be born of a woman after the fall. But the Anabaptists afterwards, though they took away this ground of their errour, of denying original sin, yet they adhered to this conclusion of meer wilfulness, without any reason.
Use 2. Is of Information, for directing our Faith about ⟨p. 100⟩Christs son-ship. For he is the Son of God and the son of man both, yet so, as he is not two sons, but in a certain way twice one son in one person. The first, from eternity; the next, in time; and consequently two ways a son, as both by generation eternal, and by generation in time; yet but one son of God, and of man, because but one person, who according to his divine nature is the Son of God, and according to his humane nature is the son of man: So is every man twice a Son, in essence first to father and paternal generation, and then to mother and maternal generation.
Use 2. Is of Information, for directing our Faith about ⟨p. 100⟩Christs son-ship. For he is the Son of God and the son of man both, yet so, as he is not two sons, but in a certain way twice one son in one person. The first, from eternity; the next, in time; and consequently two wayes a son, as both by generation eternal, and by generation in time; yet but one son of God, and of man, because but one person, who according to his divine nature is the Son of God, and according to his humane nature is the son of man: So is every man twice a Son, in essence first to father and paternal generation, and then to mother and maternal generation.