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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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Use 2. Of Direction, that in the use of this Supper we […] of no gross and carnal thoughts into our minds, as if the spiritual eating of, and feeding upon […] daily in the Word preached, were not the […] altogether as to the substance, with this in the […]: For they differ only in this, that the […] eating differs only in the manner, or external adjunct of sealing, or obsignative exhibition, or ratification, from the others that are merely spiritual, and without this outward obsignation, in the Word preached, though it hath often the inward, and substantial obsignation by the Spirit, for which only the other was instituted.
Use 2. Of Direction, that in the use of this Supper we 〈…〉 of no gross and carnall thoughts into our minds, as if the spiritual eating of, and feeding upon 〈…〉 dayly in the Word preached, were not the 〈…〉 altogether as to the substance, with this in the 〈…〉: For they differ onely in this, that the 〈…〉 eating differs onely in the manner, or external adjunct of sealing, or obsignative exhibition, or ratification, from the others that are meerly spiritual, and without this outward obsignation, in the Word preached, though it hath often the inward, and substantial obsignation by the Spirit, for which onely the other was instituted.
Doct. 4. The only […] of this operative presence of Christ in the Sacrament, is that blessing, whereby we bless, […], or set apart to such an holy use, the bread and wine, according to Christ's appointment, who cannot but be […] with him own Ordinance, by his Spirit and operation, […] […] his promise▪ when it is used, as he appointed
Doct. 4. The onely 〈…〉 of this operative presence of Christ in the Sacrament, is that blessing, whereby we bless, 〈…〉, or set apart to such an holy use, the bread and wine, according to Christ's appointment, who cannot but be with him own Ordinance, by his Spirit and operation, his promise when it is used, as he appointed