A25294:74
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.
This is gathered from these words;
I had not known sin.
Reas. 1. Because the very mind and conscience of man, which is his eye and light, is corrupted after a twofold manner. 1. Privatively, In that it is deprived of that light, whereby it might rightly judge of it self, and of such things as belong unto its spiritual life. a. Positively, In as much as it is possessed with a certain perverse disposition, whence it often calls evil good, and good evil: For as the eye being put quite out feeleth nothing, and as the eye infected with humours, and depraved by the indispositions of the organ, sees all things otherwise than they are presented; so is it with the eye of the soul.
Reas. 1. Because the very mind and conscience of man, which is his eye and light, is corrupted after a twofold manner. 1. Privitively, In that it is deprived of that light, whereby it might rightly judge of it self, and of such things as belong unto its spiritual life. a. Positively, In as much as it is possessed with a certain perverse disposition, whence it often calls evill good, and good evill: For as the eye being put quite out feeleth nothing, and as the eye infected with humours, and depraved by the indispositions of the organe, sees all things otherwise than they are presented; so is it with the eye of the soul.