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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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This is taught in the Text; 1. In that a transmutation of our bodies is determined on. 2. In that it is said, they shall be made conformable to the body of Christ, which by its resurrection was raised unto glory. The foundations or grounds of that article, are two; The power of God, and the truth of the Scriptures, as Christ himself teacheth in his answer to the Sadducees, Ye err; to wit, about the resurrection, now knowing the Scriptures, and the power of God. By the power of God, the raising of our bodies again, is possible; it being as easy to God to do that, as at first to make all things out of nothing; yea, as to make man out of the clay of the earth. For it is easy to conceive, that the same efficient cause, can again join the same principles, which once before he did conjoin, and moreover made them all out of nothing. As for the Scriptures, the truth and certainty of this resurrection is expressly declared by its testimony.
This is taught in the Text; 1. In that a transmutation of our bodies is determined on. 2. In that it is said, they shall be made conformable to the body of Christ, which by its resurrection was raised unto glory. The foundations or grounds of that article, are two; The power of God, and the truth of the Scriptures, as Christ himself teacheth in his answer to the Sadduces, Ye erre; to wit, about the resurrection, now knowing the Scriptures, and the power of God. By the power of God, the raising of our bodyes again, is possible; it being as easie to God to do that, as at first to make all things out of nothing; yea, as to make man out of the clay of the earth. For it is easy to conceive, that the same efficient cause, can again joyn the same principles, which once before he did conjoyn, and moreover made them all out of nothing. As for the Scriptures, the truth and certainty of this resurrection is expresly declared by its testimony.
Reas. 1. Because man was created for eternity, and therefore must be set free from death, which assaults the whole race of man kind against its nature, that so it may again attain to eternity.