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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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Reas. 3. That Gods omnipotency in this so divine a mystery, and principal a work of God, might be evidently shown. Now it was not difficult to the power of God, that a son should be born of a virgin. For seeing all second causes act by their virtue which they received from God, it is not to be doubted, but that God can produce all these effects, without this o• that cause co-operating, which otherwayes use to exist by them. Yet not only the power of God appeared in that work, but also his wisdom, to which it was most agreeable, that so ⟨p. 101⟩singular a substance of humane nature, should in as singular a manner be brought to pass, that differed from all others. For in three manners all men were made before, 1. Without the concurrence of either man or woman, as in the creation of Adom. 2. Without the concurrence of woman, as in the production of Eve. 3. By the concurrence of man and woman, as in all ordinary generation afterwards. And this only is the proper and peculiar one of Christ, by and of a woman, without concurrence of a man.
Reas. 3. That Gods omnipotency in this so divine a mystery, and principal a work of God, might be evidently shewn. Now it was not difficult to the power of God, that a son should be born of a virgin. For seeing all second causes act by their vertue which they received from God, it is not to be doubted, but that God can produce all these effects, without this o• that cause co-operating, which otherwayes use to exist by them. Yet not onely the power of God appeared in that work, but also his wisdome, to which it was most agreeable, that so ⟨p. 101⟩singular a substance of humane nature, should in as singular a manner be brought to pass, that differed from all others. For in three manners all men were made before, 1. Without the concurrence of either man or woman, as in the creation of Adom. 2. Without the concurrence of woman, as in the production of Eve. 3. By the concurrence of man and woman, as in all ordinary generation afterwards. And this onely is the proper and peculiar one of Christ, by and of a woman, without concurrence of a man.