A25294:774
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.
Reas. 3. In respect of our will, faith, and affiance, whereunto they are sealing signs, or most certain seals and pledges.
Reas. 3. In respect of our will, faith, and affiance, whereunto they are sealing signes, or most certain seals and pledges.
Use 1. Of Refutation, against Papists, who will have the Sacraments to work righteousness and grace in us, as physical instruments, by the work done.
Use 1. Of Refutation, against Papists, who will have the Sacraments to work righteousnesse and grace in us, as physicall instruments, by the work done.
Use 2. Of Direction, in the use of them, that our chief care may be, by these means to lay hold on, and more and more to apply to our selves all these spiritual things, which by the Sacraments are signed and sealed unto us.
Doct. 3. The things which in the Sacraments are signified and sealed unto us, are in one word all the blessings of the New Covenant.