A25294:916
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 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.
Reas. 2. Because as the internal principle of operations ⟨p. 203⟩is quite unlike; so also the outward rule of all their conversation is quite contrary; the regenerate ordering his whole life after the will of God revealed in his Word; the unregenerate after his own suggestions, and corrupt imaginations, or worldly opinions.
Reas. 2. Because as the internal principle of operations ⟨p. 203⟩is quite unlike; so also the outward rule of all their conversation is quite contrary; the regenerate ordering his whole life after the will of God revealed in his Word; the unregenerate after his owne suggestions, and corrupt imaginations, or worldly opinions.
Reas. 3. Because the end to which they tend, is unlike and contrary; the regenerate breathing after God and Heaven, as he is called to the hope of eternal life; the unregenerate seeking himself, and this present world. Hither belongs it, that the unregenerate are said to be of this world; but the regenerate Citizens of Heaven it self, Phil. 3. 20. and often elsewhere.