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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.
So in the Text; freely, his free favour. The grace of God in justification appears as it were by these degrees. 1. In that God pursues not his right against us and our sins, according to that rigour that his Law might have been taken in, and his revenging justice might have extended its self to; but left place for some reconciliation. 2. In that being himself the party offended; yet he himself of his own good-will both invented, appointed or ordered, and revealed both the manner and means of this reconciliation. 3. In that he spared not his only begotten Son, for procuring of this reconciliation. 4. That without any merits or worth of ours, he engrafts us into his Son and our Lord Jesus Christ, and so makes us partakers of that reconciliation which is in him. This was altogether necessary, that our justification might be of free favour.
So in the Text; freely, his free favour. The grace of God in justification appears as it were by these degrees. 1. In that God pursues not his right against us and our sins, according to that rigour that his Law might have been taken in, and his revenging justice might have extended its self to; but left place for some reconciliation. 2. In that being himself the party offended; yet he himself of his own good-will both invented, appointed or ordered, and revealed both the manner and means of this reconciliation. 3. In that he spared not his onely begotten Son, for procuring of this reconciliation. 4. That without any merits or worth of ours, he ingrafts us into his Son and our Lord Jesus Christ, and so makes us partakers of that reconciliation which is in him. This was altogether necessary, that our justification might be of free favour.
Reas. 1. Because it was impossible for the laws and the righteousness thereof to justify sinners, Rom. 8. vers. 1▪
Reas. 1. Because it was impossible for the laws and the righteousnes thereof to justifie sinners, Rom. 8. vers. 1