A25294:765
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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This is hence collected; because Circumcision is here called a seal of faith, or of the righteousness of faith: For a seal, when it is set to Deeds, hath this proper use, that it ratifies and confirms them; that is declares them solemnly to be sealed.
This is hence collected; because Circumcision is here called a seal of faith, or of the righteousnesse of faith: For a seal, when it is set to Deeds, hath this proper use, that it ratifies and confirmes them; that is declares them solemnly to be sealed.
Reas. 1. Because since Sacraments are fitly and conveniently referred to faith and to grace, they ought of necessity to tend either to the first begetting of grace, or to the confirmation of it. And the first is performed by the Holy Spirit in our first calling, by the preaching of the Gospel; and the Sacraments are not instruments of our first call; therefore ⟨p. 168⟩they tend not to the first breeding of faith in us, but to the confirming and strengthening of it more and more in us, after it is first begotten in us.
Reas. 1. Because since Sacraments are fitly and conveniently referred to faith and to grace, they ought of necessity to tend either to the first begetting of grace, or to the confirmation of it. And the first is performed by the Holy Spirit in our first calling, by the preaching of the Gospell; and the Sacraments are not instruments of our first call; therefore ⟨p. 168⟩they tend not to the first breeding of faith in us, but to the confirming and strengthening of it more and more in us, after it is first begotten in us.