A25294:904
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 as well of Ministers, that they attempt nothing but from the command of Christ, as his Ministers; as of others, that they so look at Ministers, as they keep not still their eye upon their persons, and look no further; but that they lift up their eyes to Christ, whose Ministers they are, and love and honour them for his sake, and the employment he hath laid upon them, wherein, and as far as they carry themselves suitably to both.
Use 2. Of Direction as well of Ministers, that they attempt nothing but from the command of Christ, as his Ministers; as of others, that they so look at Ministers, as they keep not still their eye upon their persons, and look no further; but that they lift up their eyes to Christ, whose Ministers they are, and love and honour them for his sake, and the imployment he hath laid upon them, wherein, and as far as they carry themselves sutably to both.
Doct. 3. This power is properly exercised in binding and loosing, or in shutting and opening; that is, in retaining, or remitting of sins.
Reas. 1. Because the whole consolation and edification of the Church chiefly consists in the remission ⟨p. 200⟩of sins given and granted unto believers, which is also set out and illustrated by retaining of sins, or denial of remission, which is denounced to unbelievers in the Church.