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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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Doct. 4. The other part of this conversion, is vivification, or renewing of the inward man.
By the inward, new, or renewed man, are understood the new dispositions, that are agreeable unto the will of God: They are called the man, as these other dispositions were, because they should be diffused over the whole man, as they were. And they are called the new man partly in respect to order, because they follow the other; partly in respect of their excellency, because they are so much better than the other, as new things are to old, out-worn, and decayed things; in which respect, many things of greater excellency than others are called new, in comparison to the other. And this new man is said both to be repaired, and to be put on, because as these inward dispositions in the spirit of our mind are acquired, they are the renewing of the man, and the inner man, verse 23. and the same is said to be put on as a garment, as both outwardly and inwardly it hath full hold of us, and wraps us wholly up in it self, so that it contains not only imputed righteousness, but together also that of inherence, which consists in the actions of a new obedience.
By the inward, new, or renewed man, are understood the new dispositions, that are agreeable unto the will of God: They are called the man, as these other dispositions were, because they should be diffused over the whole man, as they were. And they are called the new man partly in respect to order, because they follow the other; partly in respect of their excellency, because they are so much better than the other, as new things are to old, out-worn, and decayed things; in which respect, many things of greater excellency than others are called new, in comparison to the other. And this new man is said both to be repaired, and to be put on, because as these inward dispositions in the spirit of our minde are acquired, they are the renewing of the man, and the innerman, verse 23. and the same is said to be put on as a garment, as both outwardly and inwardly it hath full hold of us, and wrappes us wholly up in it self, so that it containes not oney imputed righteousnesse, but together also that of inherence, which consists in the actions of a new obedience.