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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.
Reas. 1. It is called his body by way of proportion or similitude, not unto a body politic, as is found in worldly Cities, or Commonwealths; but unto a natural body, such as is that of man. Now it is called the body of Christ; for its most near union that it hath with Christ, as being as it were flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone, as it is in the Text.
Reas. 1. It is called his body by way of proportion or similitude, not unto a body politick, as is found in worldly Cities, or Commonwealths; but unto a natural body, such as is that of man. Now it is called the body of Christ; for its most neer union that it hath with Christ, as being as it were flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone, as it is in the Text.
Reas. 2. Because of that dependence it hath from Christ, as its head. For as all sense and motion of a sensitive creature is derived from the head into every particular member, so also all spiritual virtue is derived by influence from Christ into his Church.
Reas. 2. Because of that dependance it hath from Christ, as its head. For as all sense and motion of a sensitive creature is derived from the head into every particular member, so also all spiritual vertue is derived by influence from Christ into his Church.
Reas. 3 Because of the union and communion that the faithful have amongst themselves in Christ, which is the communion of Saints; and the joints, whereby these members are coupled together. The bonds also of this conjunction, are the ⟨p. 145⟩Spirit, Faith and Charity. By the spirit they are properly conjoined with God in Christ, and also amongst themselves: but by Faith they are properly conjoined to God in Christ only: and by Charity most properly, they are conjoined amongst themselves.