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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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The Third Lords Day,
Rom. 5. vers. 12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.
The Apostles purpose in this place is to illustrate that Doctrine, which he had before taught concerning justification by Jesus Christ; for which end he makes a comparison of the likeness between this grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the sin of Adam, our first Father after the flesh. And the comparison runs upon the efficacy and effects of each of them: The Proposition of the Comparison is in •. 12. and the Reddition to that is after explicated by way of Parenthesis. In the Proposition, Adam is set forth, as the cause of a twofold effect; to wit, of the bringing in of sin, and of the bringing in of Death. And the reason of the Connection of these effects with that cause is given in the last words of this verse, to wit, from the conjunction that all had with Adam in that first sin; in these words, In whom all men, &c.
THe Apostles purpose in this place is to illustrate that Doctrine, which he had before taught concerning justification by Iesus Christ; for which end he makes a comparison of the likeness between this grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, and the sin of Adam, our first Father after the flesh. And the comparison runs upon the efficacy and effects of each of them: The Proposition of the Comparison is in . 12. and the Reddition to that is after explicated by way of Parenthesis. In the Proposition, Adam is set forth, as the cause of a twofold effect; to wit, of the bringing in of sin, and of the bringing in of Death. And the reason of the Connexion of these effects with that cause is given in the last words of this verse, to wit, from the conjunction that all had with Adam in that first sin; in these words, In whom all men, &c.