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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This is not so to be understood, as if in kind and particularly he had undergone all the evils, but in value only, and generally; in the sum or upcast of all, and in that which was equivalent and equipollent to all; and so, he is said to have suffered all the evils of punishment.
This is not so to be understood, as if in kind and particularly he had undergone all the evills, but in value onely, and generally; in the summe or upcast of all, and in that which was equivalent and equipollent to all; and so, he is said to have suffered all the evills of punishment.
Reas. 1. Because he suffered generally all sorts of evil; to wit, as well spiritual in the agony and horror of his mind, as corporal in his body; and the extreme, as well positive, as privative, both in a kind of loss, and in kind of sorrow or feeling.
Reas. 1. Because he suffered generally all sorts of evill; to wit, as well spiritual in the agony and horror of his mind, as corporal in his body; and the extreme, as well positive, as privative, both in a kind of loss, and in kind of sorrow or feeling.
Reas▪ 2. Because he suffered from all, from whom any evil could be inflicted. He suffered from men, as well Jews, as Gentiles; as well his own domestics, as foreigners; he suffered from the powers of darkness and Hell, which were the murderers from the beginning, and the authors of all these evils, ⟨p. 106⟩which Christ suffered from them, and their instruments; lastly, he suffered from God himself, whose cup full of wrath he drunk out.