A25294:708
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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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.
The three and twentieth Lords day.
Rom. 3. 24, 25. Verse 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the r• demption that is in Jesus Christ. 25▪ Whom God •ath •et forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood▪ to declare his righteousness for the r• mission of sins that are past, through the […] of God.
Rom. 3. 24, 25. Verse 24 Bei•g justified freely by his grace through the r• demption that is in Iesus Christ. 25▪ Whom God •ath •et forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood▪ to declare his right•ousnesse for the r• mission of sinnes that are past, through the 〈…〉 of God.
The Apostle had before proved, that all mankind was under most grievous guilt of sin, a•d therefore had need of justification, that they might be saved which justification also he had shown that it could not be had from any […], no from the Law; which he had set down as the conclusion of his discourse in the 20 verse of this Chapter From thene he also […] […] further, […] justification is of necessity to be […] in that way of the Gospel, which is proposed in Christ Jesus. The whole dispute may be summed up in this Syllogism Men are either justified by Nature, or by Law, or by the Gospel: But neither by Nature, nor by the Law; and therefore of necessity by the Gospel. The Proposition is presupposed and tacitly understood, as manifest in it self. The Assumption is provd in the first part of the Epistle, unto the 21. verse of this Chapter. The Conclusion is proposed and illustrated in that 21. verse to the end of that Chapter, and afterwards. The words in our Text set down,