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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.
It is in the Text, By the Redemption made by Jesus Christ. 1. For he that is justified by the Redemption […] other, as by paying a ransom: that price is conceived as it were to be paid for him who is redeemed. •. If Christ be the pacification in our justification, when we please God, as it is in the Text, then we please him for something, which Christ hath ⟨p. 159⟩performed for our good. 3. If Faith justifies, as it hath relation to Christ, and the shedding of his blood, then there is something in his blood thus shed, or in his obedience unto death, by virtue whereof we are justified.
It is in the Text, By the Redemption made by Iesus Christ. 1. For he that is justified by the Redemption 〈…〉 other, as by paying a ransom: that price is conceived as it were to be paid for him who is redeemed. •. If Christ be the pacification in our justification, when we please God, as it is in the Text, then we please him for something, which Christ hath ⟨p. 159⟩performed for our good. 3. If Faith justifies, as it hath relation to Christ, and the shedding of his blood, then there is something in his blood thus shed, or in his obedience unto death, by vertue whereof we are justified.
Now the obedience of Christ in respect of our justification, hath 1. the place of a meriting cause, which obtains it for us, because it was the means that Gods justice required to be performed to him, before his grace could justify us. 2▪ It hath the place of the formal cause, in as much as it is so accepted and taken for ours, being given us by free-gift, and so made ours indeed, as that we are looked on by God, as truly clothed with it: when he pronounces the sentence of our justification: whence that phrase of the Apostle is, Not having mine own righteousness, but that which is Christs,