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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.
Reas. 2. Because his charge of redeeming us required this; to wit, that he should pay that price to divine justice, which we did owe, and so be subject to the same punishment, that we were liable to. And this was also the reason, why he chose the death of the Cross, that he might show, that he did not barely sustain death, but that cursed death that was due to us, and that in our place, or for us, Gal. 3. 12.
Reas. 2. Because his charge of redeeming us required this; to wit, that he should pay that price to divine justice, which we did ow, and so be subject to the same punishment, that we were liable to. And this was also the reason, why he chose the death of the Cross, that he might shew, that he did not barely sustain death, but that cursed death that was due to us, and that in our place, or for us, Gal. 3. 12.
Reas. 3. That by the most convenient way he might procure the death of sin in us, by assimilation, and making us conform to himself, Rom. 6. from verse 1. to the 8.
Reas. 3. That by the most convenient way he might procure the death of sin in us, by assimiliation, and making us conform to himself, Rom. 6. from verse 1. to the 8.
Use 1. Is of Information, for directing of our faith; •o wit, that while we seek remission of our sins, and reconciliation, and salvation in God; we so have our faith in Christ, that we may be specially united to him in his sufferings, blood-shedding, and death,