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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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Use 3. Is of Direction, 1. In the study of Sanctification, that with Christ we may die to sin. 2. In the study of all obedience, love, and humility, according to the example of Christ, in whom all the perfections of these virtues we have marvellously shining to us in a most eminent and excellent way.
Use 3. Is of Direction, 1. In the study of Sanctification, that with Christ we may dy to sin. 2. In the study of all obedience, love, and humility, according to the example of Christ, in whom all the perfections of these vertues we have marvelously shining to us in a most eminent and excellent way.
Doct. 2. Christ ordained his own death from certain wise deliberation and power, to dispose of it as he pleased.
I have power to lay down my li•e. From which words it appears first, that the death of Christ was voluntary. For though it was violent also, as it came from external agents, and was against Christs internal natural inclinations; and in some sort natural also, as it was wrought by external causes naturally producing such an effect: Yet it was voluntary, not only as to the willing disposition, and choice of it, whereby Christ set himself to suffer it; but also as he suspended his own power of hindering it, and averting death, and so gave way and power to the enemies inflicting it, in which respect also his death may be called miraculous, or wonderful; because he himself, who was dying, ordered his own death, and willingly admitted the same: So that by doing he suffered, and by suffering he acted, and ⟨p. 114⟩had his own action in it all, without which he could not have suffered by any creature whatsoever.