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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
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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.
This is gathered from hence, in that the righteousness of faith is said to be sealed by the Sacrament of Circumcision. Now that righteousness by the trope Synecdoche, signifies all the blessings of the New Covenant, as appears from verse 9. where the imputation of this righteousness is called the declaration ⟨p. 170⟩of blessedness▪ Now the same that is signified in one Sacrament, is also signified in another, as to the substance of the matter; though the manner be diverse; and so some benefits are more expressly signified in one Sacrament than in another.
This is gathered from hence, in that the righteousness of faith is said to be sealed by the Sacrament of Circumcision. Now that righteousnesse by the trope Synecdoche, signifies all the blessings of the New Covenant, as appeares from verse 9. where the imputation of this righteousnesse is called the declaration ⟨p. 170⟩of blessednesse▪ Now the same that is signified in one Sacrament, is also signified in another, as to the substance of the matter; though the manner be diverse; and so some benefits are more expresly signified in one Sacrament than in another.
Reas. 1. Because a Sacrament is after the fall a seal of the New Covenant, not as to this, or that part of it, but of the whole. For no Covenant, or Charter, though sometimes it may have many seals, uses to be confirmed as to one part of it by one seal, and to another part of it by another seal; but by all and every seal the whole is confirmed.