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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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. 1. Because it became him to die so, that was God. For since the humane nature subsisted in the f•me person with the divine, nothing could befall the humane nature either in doing, or suffering, but as the divine willed and ordained it.
Reas. 1. Because it became him to dy so, that was God. For since the humane nature subsisted in the f•me person with the divine, nothing could befall the humane nature either in doing, or suffering, but as the divine willed and ordained it.
Reas. 2. Because otherwise Christ in his death had not been together both Priest, Sacrifice, and Altar. For though it be the part of a Sacrifice to be passive, and to be offered up to the Father; yet it is the part of the Priest by being active about it, and ordering the whole, to offer up the Sacrifice.
Use 1. Is of Information, for arming our faith against tentations and scandals, which use to arise hence, in that Christ, in whom we believe, as our God, was subject to death. For Christ died not of weakness and coaction, but by certain resolution, and of his own proper will and power; so that the divine nature and power of Christ appeared not only in his resurrection, but if the thing be rightly considered, had as great a hand, and was as evident in his death also.
Use 1. Is of Information, for arming our faith against tentations and scandals, which use to arise hence, in that Christ, in whom we believe, as our God, was subject to death. For Christ died not of weakness and coaction, but by certain resolution, and of his own proper will and power; so that the divine nature and power of Christ appeared not onely in his resurrection, but if the thing be rightly considered, had as great a hand, and was as evident in his death also.