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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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Questions hence arising.
Quest. 1. Whether did not some wise men, at least among the Heathen, know sin without this Law of God?
I answer; 1. That they were not altogether without this law of God, because in part they had it written and engraven in their hearts. But yet, 2. They knew not many sins, which by the Law might easily have been known. 3. They knew not sin under the first and most proper reason of it; to wit, as it was an offence against God; but only as it was repugnant to reason in man himself. 4. They knew not those spiritual miseries which accompany sin. 5. They did not know sin practically and efficaciously, so as to be by that knowledge driven to a spiritual humbling of themselves before God.
I answer; 1. That they were not altogether without this law of God, because in part they had it written and ingraven in their hearts. But yet, 2. They knew not many sins, which by the Law might easily have been known. 3. They knew not sin under the first and most proper reason of it; to wit, as it was an offence against God; but onely as it was repugnant to reason in man himself. 4. They knew not those spiritual miseries which accompanie sin. 5. They did not know sin practically and efficaciously, so as to be by that knowledge driven to a spiritual humbling of themselves before God.