A25294:686
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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. This glory is partly in the soul, and partly in the body; but in both there shall be a removal of all imperfection, and a communication of all perfection, which shall be thought fit for every one to receive. In the soul shall be the fruition of God, whereby all desire of desirable things shall be in a certain eminent way satisfied. There shall be also an abundantly heaped perfection of all gifts and virtues, as is in the blessed Angels. This glory shall also so stream forth unto the bodies, that they shall be like unto heavenly bodies; which is the point chiefly expounded in the Text: Our body shall be made conformable, &c.
It is in the Text. This glory is partly in the soul, and partly in the body; but in both there shall be a removal of all imperfection, and a communication of all perfection, which shall be thought fit for every one to receive. In the soul shall be the fruition of God, whereby all desire of desirable things shall be in a certain eminent way satisfied. There shall be also an abundantly heaped perfection of all gifts and virtues, as is in the blessed Angells. This glory shall also so stream forth unto the bodies, that they shall be like unto heavenly bodies; which is the point chiefly expounded in the Text: Our body shall be made conformable, &c.
Reas. 1. Because it is God's purpose singularly to glorify himself in that supernatural blessedness that is to be given unto us.
Reas. 1. Because it is God's purpose singularly to glorify himself in that supernaturall blessednesse that is to be given unto us.
Reas. 2. Because Christ already glorified, is not only the efficient cause, but the pattern of our glory. We shall not therefore have only such a likeness to Christ; as is between any effect and its cause, according to that maxim; as the cause is, such is the effect: But also that proportion which is between the pattern and its portrait.