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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. 3. Because that same Spirit quickens us by the power and virtue of the resurrection of Christ.
Reas. 3. Because that same Spirit quickens us by the power and vertue of the resurrection of Christ.
Reas. 4. Because the whole reparation of our nature will be after the image and pattern of the resurrection of Christ, Rom. 6. 5.
Use 1. Of Consolation, because in the resurrection of Christ, as brought to pass for us, or for our good, we have our victory over Death, Devil, Sin, and Hell, and all our Enemies, ready purchased and prepared for us. It is not therefore left to us to fight, that we may overcome, but only in sincerity that we may mind this, to lay hold on the victory already acquired by Christ for us, and that in the same manner we may strive to keep it, prosecute it, and more and more put ourselves in perfect possession of it by faith in Christ.
Use 1. Of Consolation, because in the resurrection of Christ, as brought to pass for us, or for our good, we have our victory over Death, Devill, Sin, and Hell, and all our Enemies, ready purchased and prepared for us. It is not therefore left to us to fight, that we may overcome, but onely in sincerity that we may mind this, to lay hold on the victory already acquired by Christ for us, and that in the same manner we may strive to keep it, prosecute it, and more and more put ourselves in perfect possession of it by faith in Christ.