A25294:914
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.
Doct. 1. There is a great unlikeness of condition and life between men regenerated and unregenerated.
Doct. 1. There is a great unlikenesse of condition and life between men regenerated and unregenerated.
This is gathered from the scope of the Text, and these words; the old man, and the new man, as if a man were not the same man after regeneration, that he was before. Hither belong all these comparisons which through most of the Proverbs of Solomon are made between the godly and ungodly. It is pointed at also every where in the New Testament, and also in the Old, by the difference between light and darkness, and between a quick man and a dead, and between one that being defiled with all sort of uncleanness, like the Sow that wallows in the mire, and one that is washed and cleansed.
This is gathered from the scope of the Text, and these words; the old man, and the new man, as if a man were not the same man after regeneration, that he was before. Hither belong all these comparisons which through most of the Proverbs of Solomon are made between the godly and ungodly. It is pointed at also every where in the New Testament, and also in the Old, by the difference between light and darknesse, and between a quick man and a dead, and between one that being defiled with all sort of uncleannesse, like the Sow that wallowes in the mire, and one that is washed and cleansed.
Reas. 1. Because they have a diverse nature; believers being made partakers of the divine nature, 2 Pet. 1. 4. and unbelievers are scarcely to be said to have a mans nature in a moral consideration. Hither belongs it, that the Apostle every where teacheth that believers are led and governed by the Spirit of God, to walk thereafter; and that unbelievers are led by their own flesh.