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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.
Use 2. Is of Direction, for our preparation to undergo death, in whatsoever way God would have it come to pass. For from these two things that were in Christ, that he both willingly underwent death; and then also ordered it himself; the first of these lies upon us all, out of duty; that we be ready at such time, and such manner to die, as God is pleased we should. The other, though it cannot be performed by us, because we have not the power of laying down our lives, and ordering our deaths; ⟨p. 115⟩yet by faith, and holy desire to our comfort, we ought to seek this of God, and look for it, that in Christ, who ordered his own death for us, he would order our death unto our salvation, and unto his own glory.
Use 2. Is of Direction, for our preparation to undergo death, in whatsoever way God would have it come to pass. For from these two things that were in Christ, that he both willingly underwent death; and then also ordered it himself; the first of these lies upon us all, out of duty; that we be ready at such time, and such manner to dy, as God is pleased we should. The other, though it cannot be performed by us, because we have not the power of laying down our lives, and ordering our deaths; ⟨p. 115⟩yet by faith, and holy desire to our comfort, we ought to seek this of God, and look for it, that in Christ, who ordered his own death for us, he would order our death unto our salvation, and unto his own glory.
Doct. 3. Christ underwent this death by his Fathers command.
It is in the Text; This command I received of my Father. And this command was neither any of the law of nature, nor of the moral, ceremonial, or judicial; but it was a peculiar condition of the mediatory office, that was laid upon Christ by the Father, and of his own free consent. It was therefore a command to the Messiah alone, as he was our Mediator.