A25294:787
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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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. 2. Because to every one in particular, and by name they are exhibited for their confirmation; and not in common only, as the Word is preached publicly.
Reas. 2. Because to every one in particular, and by name they are exhibited for their confirmation; and not in common onely, as the Word is preached publickly.
Reas. 3. Because the manner of administration, and the Sacramental actions that belong unto them, as washing in Baptism, taking, eating, drinking in the Lord's Supper, consist in a particular application of the signs; and therefore also they signify ⟨p. 172⟩a particular sealing of the things signified, unto particular persons.
Reas. 3. Because the manner of administration, and the Sacramentall actions that belong unto them, as washing in Baptisme, taking, eating, drinking in the Lord's Supper, consist in a particular application of the signes; and therefore also they signify ⟨p. 172⟩a particular sealing of the things signified, unto particular persons.
Use 1. Is of Comfort, against scruples and doubts wherewith our minds are sometimes troubled. Because in the Sacraments duly administered to such as have right, God as it were from Heaven stretcheth out his own hand, and holds forth in it his grace, and all the spiritual blessings of the Covenant, alike unto every one of us (thus participating) in our own proper and singular persons particularly.
Use 1. Is of Comfort, against scruples and doubts wherewith our minds are sometimes troubled. Because in the Sacraments duly administred to such as have right, God as it were from Heaven stretcheth out his owne hand, and holds forth in it his grace, and all the spiritual blessings of the Covenant, alike unto every one of us (thus participating) in our own proper and singular persons particularly.