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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. 1. Because this is the end, whereunto all the godly look; desiring nothing more, than still to approach nearer, and nearer unto God. The ungodly, on the contrary, shun nothing more than God, and such things wherein God hath appointed to show and impart his gracious and singular presence.
Reas. 1. Because this is the end, whereunto all the godly look; desiring nothing more, than still to apprach nearer, and nearer unto God. The ungodly, on the contrary, shunne nothing more than God, and such things wherein God hath appointed to shew and impart his gracious and singular presence.
Reas. 2. Because man's happiness not coming of ⟨p. 136⟩man himself, is therefore to be sought from without himself, and that from his union or conjunction with the greatest good, and that is the cause and fountain of all good. Therefore of necessity it consists in communion with God; and from deprivation of this communion, greatest misery must needs follow.
Reas. 3. Because the perfectest act of our life, is that which is most closely and intimately carried towards God; as all that we do well consists in this, that therein we live unto God; and the privation of such acting, its want and absence all misery must accompany.