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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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The twentieth Lords day.
1 Cor. 6. 19. What, know you not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
IN the words of the Text are contained a most powerful argument against Fornication and the like sins; and it is taken from the contrary end, because the end of Christian's bodies is quite opposite to this sin. And that end is declared from the subject possessed, and possessor and indweller of it, the Holy Ghost; The subject is again explained by a Metaphor of a Temple, because namely our bodies are as it were houses consecrated to him. And that this argument may be made the clearer and stronger, the Apostle ads, that so the holy Ghost is the possessor of this Temple, or house, that he himself also is the indweller of it. And both these relations that we have to the Holy Ghost, are illustrated from their efficient cause; to wit, that they are of God; and from their consequent effect and adjunct; to wit, faith and certain knowledge of these relations between our bodies and the Holy Spirit, in these words; Know ye not brethren, &c.
IN the words of the Text are contained a most powerfull argument against Fornication and the like sinnes; and it is taken from the contrary end, because the end of Christian's bodies is quite opposite to this sin. And that end is declared from the subject possessed, and possessor and indweller of it, the Holy Ghost; The subject is again explained by a Metaphor of a Temple, because namely our bodies are as it were houses consecrated to him. And that this argument may be made the clearer and stronger, the Apostle ads, that so the holy Ghost is the possessor of this Temple, or house, that he himself also is the indweller of it. And both these relations that we have to the Holy Ghost, are illustrated from their efficient cause; to wit, that they are of God; and from their consequent effect and adjunct; to wit, faith and certain knowledge of these relations between our bodies and the Holy Spirit, in these words; Know ye not brethren, &c.