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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
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.
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.
Reas. 2. Because Christ already glorified, is not onely the efficient cause, but the pattern of our glory. We shall not therefore have onely such a likenesse to Christ; as is between any effect and its cause, according to that maxime; as the cause is, such is the effect: But also that proportion which is between the pattern and its pourtraict.
Reas. 3. In order of dignity, by the bountiful appointment of God, believers shall next after Christ have their place together with the blessed Angels.
Reas. 3. In order of dignity, by the bountiful appointment of God, believers shall next after Christ have their place together with the blessed Angells.