A25294:927
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, Of Admonition. that we beware least by hearing in vain the preaching of the Gospel, without this fruit of conversion and change of life, we perniciously deceive our selves.
Use, Of Admonition. that we beware least by hearing in vain the preaching of the Gospell, without this fruit of conversion and change of life, we perniciously deceive our selves.
Doct. 3. One part of this conversion made by the Gospel, is mortification of all our corrupt dispositions and customs.
Doct. 3. One part of this conversion made by the Gospell, is mortification of all our corrupt dispositions and customes.
It is gathered from verse 22. where by the old man, all the corrupt dispositions are understood, because they possessing all the parts and faculties of the man from our birth, and that with dominion and power over us to keep us still under them, do therefore carry the name of the old man justly, and that for these reasons. 1. Because they thus possessed us from the beginning of our conception. 2. Because they ought by Christians to be esteemed as things old, and useless, and to be put off, and laid away: And that,
It is gathered from verse 22. where by the old man, all the corrupt dispositions are understood, because they possessing all the parts and faculties of the man from our birth, and that with dominion and power over us to keep us still under them, do therefore carry the name of the old man iustly, and that for these reasons. 1. Because they thus possessed us from the beginning of our conception. 2. Because they ought by Christians to be esteemed as things old, and useless, and to be put off, and laid away: And that,