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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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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.
This is taught in the Text; The cup of blessing, which we bless &c. This blessing contains in it self, 1. The Institution recited and explained in celebration of the upper, as the ground of the whole action, and of the benefit and blessing, that is to follow on it. 2. A thanks giving for Christ, and for this his appointment, unto the Father, through him, and ⟨p. 187⟩by the Spirit, that in this Ordinance we are more and more made partakers of Christ and his benefits. 3. A petition, whereby the grace of God is sought, for directing and keeping us in the right use of it, and making this Ordinance powerful unto all the ends, for which it was appointed by him: And this is properly the consecrating of the signs, or outward elements.
This is taught in the Text; The cup of blessing, which we bless &c. This blessing containes in it self, 1. The Institution recited and explained in celebration of the upper, as the ground of the whole action, and of the benefit and blessing, that is to follow on it. 2. A thanks giving for Christ, and for this his appointment, unto the Father, through him, and ⟨p. 187⟩by the Spirit, that in this Ordinance we are more and more made partakers of Christ and his benefits. 3. A petition, wherereby the grace of God is sought, for directing and keeping us in the right use of it, and making this Ordinance powerfull unto all the ends, for which it was appointad by him: And this is properly the consecrating of the signes, or outward elements.
Reas. 1. Because by this blessing, bodily things are separated from a common use, and are set apart to an holy, and so are consecrated, and sanctified.