A25294:932
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. 3. Because life and obedience cannot have place in such, as these lusts and customs have power in; and the Gospel calls us to a spiritual life, and a new obedience.
Reas. 3. Because life and obedience cannot have place in such, as these lusts and customes have power in; and the Gospell calls us to a spiritual life, and a new obedience.
Use 1. Of Reproof▪ of such, as would have themselves thought regenerate, when yet they are the servants of such carnal lusts.
Use 1. Of R•proof▪ of such, as would have themselves thought regenerate, when yet they are the servants of such carnal lusts.
Use 2. Of Exhortation, that we manfully set our selves not only to repress such lusts, but quite also to root them out. Now the old man is mortified, 1. By that firm and constant purpose of changing our life, which is effectually begun in our first repentance, and daily ought to be renewed, and extended to all new emergencies. 2. By the virtue of Christ's death applied to us by faith, whence our old man is said to be crucified with Christ; and it may be rightly added, with the same nails, that Christ was crucified with. For Christ was fastened unto the Cross, partly because of the guilt of our sins; partly out of the love of the Father to us, that we might be saved: partly out of Christ's▪ own love to us, whereby he was willing to lay down his life for us. And by the earnest meditation of these things, the power of sin is most diminished in us. 3. By the power of the Holy Spirit, to whom we ought to give up our selves, in the use of all the