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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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Quest. It may be th•n questioned, whether Christ may be called the Son of the Holy Ghost?
Ans▪ It cannot be said; 1. Because it would bring some confusion of relations and proprieties personal in God, and in the persons. 2. Because the Holy Spirit neither produced a new person, when he made Christ to be begotten, or generated; neither produced the nature, which he produced, after his own nature, or of the same essence with his own.
Use 1. Is of Direction, in our Faith, and in all our thoughts, that we have of Christ; that we admit of all that is in him, to be spiritual, holy, and full of mystery; nor that we ever doubt of any part of this mystery; because all this, as it is above common order, so is it above the reach of common nature. Yet we may always receive and conceive this, that none of all these things are above the divine ⟨p. 103⟩power of the Holy Spirit; nor any thing impertinent or unfitting in that thing, which is wholly managed by the Holy Ghost.
Use 1. Is of Direction, in our Faith, and in all our thoughts, that we have of Christ; that we admit of all that is in him, to be spiritual, holy, and full of mystery; nor that we ever doubt of any part of this mystery; because all this, as it is above common order, so is it above the reach of common nature. Yet we may always receive and conceive this, that none of all these things are above the divine ⟨p. 103⟩power of the Holy Spirit; nor any thing impertinent or unfitting in that thing, which is wholly mannaged by the Holy Ghost.