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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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Use 1. Is of Refutation, against Papists, who wrest all, that are proposed to be believed and spiritually understood of Christs mystical body, unto the Popish state of their Roman visible Church, which is neither one, because not now the same, that she was, when the Apostles wrote to her; neither holy, because by their own confession many Popes, that is, heads of the Roman Church, were most wicked beasts; nor is •he Catholic, or Universal, because it implies a contradiction, that one particular Church, as the Roman properly is, should be Universal in any propriety of speech.
Use 1. Is of Resutation, against Papists, who wrest all, that are proposed to be believed and spiritually understood of Christs mystical body, unto the Popish state of their Romane visible Church, which is neither one, because not now the same, that she was, when the Apostles wrote to her; neither holy, because by their own confession many Popes, that is, heads of the Romane Church, were most wicked beasts; nor is •he Catholike, or Universall, because it implies a contradiction, that one particular Church, as the Romane properly is, should be Universall in any propriety of speech.
Use 2. Is of Consolation, to all believers; because in this very thing, that they are actual believers, they are members of this Church, that is proposed to us to be believed; and they are in the same condition, as to the main business, in which the Patriarchs, Prophets, and Apostles, and all the Saints were, that ever lived, or shall live hereafter, in any place, or time of the world.
Use 2. Is of Consolation, to all believers; because in this very thing, that they are actuall believers, they are members of this Church, that is proposed to us to be believed; and they are in the same condition, as to the main business, in which the Patriarches, Prophets, and Apostles, and all the Saints were, that ever lived, or shall live hereafter, in any place, or time of the world.