A25294:676
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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Reas. 2. Because the soul cannot come to its perfect ⟨p. 149⟩and complete glory, by its reunion with the body; because it would be as it were maimed, as to such faculties, the operations whereof it exerciseth by the body; and so in some sort it should remain, as it were blind, deaf, dumb, &c.
Reas. 2. Because the soule cannot come to its perfect ⟨p. 149⟩and compleat glory, by its reunion with the body; because it would be as it were maimed, as to such faculties, the operations whereof it exerciseth by the body; and so in some sort it should remain, as it were blind, deaf, dumb, &c.
Reas. 3. Because the equity of divine dispensation requireth this, that those bodies, which had their own share in the labours and works that belong unto this life; should also have their share in such rewards, as belong unto the end of this life.
Reas. 3. Because the equity of divine dispensation requireth this, that those bodies, which had their own share in the labours and workes that belong unto this life; should also have their share in such rewards, as belong unto the end of this life.
Use, Is to establish our faith about this truth, which is one of the principal articles of the Christian faith.