A25294:934
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 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 ⟨p. 206⟩means ordained of God, whereby he useth to put forth his powerful working.
Use 2. Of Exhortation, that we manfully set our selves not onely to repress such lusts, but quite also to root them out. Now the old man is mortified, 1. By that firme and constant purpose of changing our life, which is effectually begun in our first repentance, and dayly ought to be renewed, and extended to all new emergencies. 2. By the vertue 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 nailes, that Christ was crucified with. For Christ was fastned 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▪ owne 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 ough• to give up our selves, in the use of all the ⟨p. 206⟩meanes ordained of God, whereby he useth to put forth his powerfull working.