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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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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.
Reas. 1. Because all good is from God, who is the greatest good, and chiefly good in himself. But all evil of punishment ariseth from evil of fault; and this evil of fault is from the creature it self, breaking the Law and Order that God hath set to it.
Reas. 1. Because all good is from God, who is the greatest good, and chiefly good in himself. But all evill of punishment ariseth from evill of fault; and this evill of fault is from the creature it self, breaking the Law and Order that God hath set to it.
Reas. 2. Because the blessing of life is the mere free gift of God; but the curse of death is the reward or wages of sin, Rom. 6. 23.
Reas. 2. Because the blessing of life is the meer free gift of God; but the curse of death is the reward or wages of sin, Rom. 6. 23.