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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, Of Admonition, that we separate our selves from ungodly men, as much, and in such manner, as we can; that is, if we cannot separate in places, yet in internal affections, as well as external conversation, we should be as unlike unto them as can be in that wherein they are ungodly.
Doct. 5. The cause of any blessing to the godly, is the mercy of God; but the cause of any ca•se to the ungodly, is their own fault.
Doct. 5. The cause of any blessing to the godly, is the mercy of God; but the cause of any ca•se to the ungodly, is their own sault.
This is clear in the Text, when the godly are called blessed of the Father, But the ungodly, barely are ⟨p. 135⟩called ye cursed, not of the Father, nor from the Father, nor from God; because though it is God that curseth them, yet the first cause of this curse is in their sins.