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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.
It is in the Text, when our bodies are also called the Temples of the Spirit.
Reas. 1. Because as Christ redeemed not our ⟨p. 140⟩souls only, but the whole man; so also the Holy Spirit ought to bring into subjection and possession the whole man to God, and to Christ.
Reas. 1. Because as Christ redeemed not our ⟨p. 140⟩soules onely, but the whole man; so also the Holy Spirit ought to bring into subjection and possession the whole man to God, and to Christ.
Reas. 2. Because many duties of a spiritual life must be performed by the body also, and therefore the body ought to be subject to the Holy Spirit, and as a vessel, or instrument, be wholly in his power.
Reas. 2. Because many duties of a spiritual life must be performed by the body also, and therefore the body ought to be subject to the Holy Spirit, and as a vessell, or instrument, be wholly in his power.