A25294:906
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. 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.
Reas▪ 2. Because all other duties that belong unto the Ministry depend on these, and may conveniently be reduced into them, either as means, effects, adjuncts, and the like.
Reas▪ 2. Because all other duties that belong unto the Ministry depend on these, and may conveniently be reduced into them, either as meanes, effects, adjuncts, and the like.
Reas. 3. Because in these the excellency and worth of the Ministry of the Gospel do singularly appear; because that chief work of forgiving sins, which properly and absolutely agreeth only to God, is in some sort communicated to the Ministers of Christ, or made common to them with God; to wit, because the denunciation, testification, declaration, and certification of forgiveness of sins, belongs unto the Ministers of Christ, by their office; and that in two ways; to wit, either in the preaching of the Word, or in the exercise of Discipline.
Reas. 3. Because in these the excellency and worth of the Ministry of the Gospell do singularly appear; because that chief work of forgiving sins, which properly and absolutely agreeth onely to God, is in some sort communicated to the Ministers of Christ, or made common to them with God; to wit, because the denunciation, testification, declaration, and certification of forgiveness of sins, belongs unto the Ministers of Christ, by their office; and that in two wayes; to wit, either in the preaching of the Word, or in the exercise of Discipline.