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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. 4. That it might easily appear how the contagion of sin might be removed from the humane nature of Christ.
Use, Is of Confirmation, for strengthening of our Faith about the person of Christ; to wit, that he was both the Messiah of old promised, and the promised seed of the woman in that peculiar manner, as that promise seems to have intended; to wit, the son of man; that is, of a woman descending of Adam and other men in ordinary way, but made mother of a son not vulgarly or after the common manner, but miraculously and without the company of a man begotten, and born; so that from his first conception all things were in him supernatural; about which our minds being busied, ought always to be lifted up to supernatural contemplations, laying aside carnal and worldly thoughts.
Use, Is of Confirmation, for strengthening of our Faith about the person of Christ; to wit, that he was both the Messias of old promised, and the promised seed of the woman in that peculiar manner, as that promise seems to have intended; to wit, the son of man; that is, of a woman descending of Adam and other men in ordinary way, but made mother of a son not vulgarly or after the common manner, but miraculously and without the company of a man begotten, and born; so that from his first conception all things were in him supernatural; about which our mindes being busied, ought alwayes to be lifted up to supernatural contemplations, laying aside carnal and worldly thoughts.
Doct. 4. The Holy Ghost was the principal efficient cause of this generation.