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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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Reas. 2. That by this means Christ himself might be justified in the spirit, or according to the spirit of holiness, that is by the power of his God-head justified to be God as well as man in one person; justly and fully declared and proved to be God, by his raising of himself again from the dead, Rom. 1. 4. 1 Tim. 3. 16. and might show that we were justified by him from our sins, for which he died, and rose also again to show that he had overcome for us, and delivered us from them, Rom. 4. 25.
Reas. 2. That by this means Christ himself might be justified in the spirit, or according to the spirit of holiness, that is by the power of his God-head justified to be God as well as man in one person; justly and fully declared and proved to be God, by his raising of himself again from the dead, Rom. 1. 4. 1 Tim. 3. 16. and might shew that we were justified by him from our sins, for which he died, and rose also again to shew that he had overcome for us, and delivered us from them, Rom. 4. 25.
Reas. 3. That being now alive, he might powerfully apply to us, what before he had purchased by his death, Rom. 5 10.
Reas 4. That he hereby might be the cause, foundation, and sign of assurance, and earnest to us of our resurrection, as well spiritual, as bodily, Rom. &