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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. With the nature of Sacraments in general, whose nature consist in a relative union, or likeness, as hath been explained; not in a bodily succession of the one in the others place, or a substantial change of the one into the other; nor yet in a bodily conjunction or presence of the one with, in, and under the other.
Reas. 2. With the analogy of this to the other Sacrament of Baptism, wherein neither Transubstantiation, nor Consubstantiation useth to be made, nor is dreamed of to be made.
Reas. 2. With the analogy of this to the other Sacrament of Baptisme, wherein neither Transubstantiation, nor Consustantiation useth to be made, nor is dream'd of to be made.
Reas. 3. With all the Sacramental phrases, or manners of speaking, used through all the Scriptures.
Reas. 4. With the humane nature of Christ, which, with its essential properties safely can neither be every where, nor yet in so innumerable places, at once, as the Supper of the Lord useth to be given at one time.