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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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Reas. 1. Because these three are directly necessary for us, that we may have true entrance into the Kingdom of God. For 1. We must be accepted of as God's children, that he may be our Father; which is by adoption. 2. We must be freed from the guilt of sin, by which we are separated from God; and this is done by justification. 3. We must be cleansed and purged from the remainders and corruptions of sin, whereby men are made unfit to enjoy God; and this is done by sanctification.
Reas. 1. Because these three are directly necessary for us, that we may have true entrance into the Kingdome of God. For 1. We must be accepted of as God's children, that he may be our Father; which is by adoption. 2. We must be freed from the guilt of sin, by which we are separated from God; and this is done by justification. 3. We must be cleansed and purged from the remainders and corruptions of sin, whereby men are made unfit to injoy God; and this is done by sanctification.
Reas. 2. Because the washing with water in Baptism designeth and some way respecteth our cleansing as well from the guilt, as corruption of sin, whereby we were made strangers to the estate of the Sons of God, that thence it may appear, that now by grace we are adopted, justified, and sanctified. Neither by any other visible sign could these things so conveniently have been shadowed out, as by the washing of water; because both of its own nature it hath a principal fitness to cleanse, and amongst all Nations it is easy to be had at hand, and then also it had been before sanctified under the Old Testament for such uses.
Reas. 2. Because the washing with water in Baptisme designeth and some way respecteth our cleansing as well from the guilt, as corruption of sinne, whereby we were made strangers to the estate of the Sons of God, that thence it may appear, that now by grace we are adopted, justified, and sanctified. Neither by any other visible sign could these things so conveniently have been shadowed out, as by the washing of water; because both of its owne nature it hath a principal fitness to cleanse, and amongst all Nations it is ea•ie to be had at hand, and then also it had been before sanctified under the Old Testament for such uses.