A25294:937
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Reas. 1. This new man must be put on, because it is according to God, or the image of God, as it is in the Text. For it is our duty in our whole life to live unto God, and to aspire to be like to the image of God, according to which we were created, and whereunto we are now again called.
Reas. 2. Because in this new man, or in this image of God our spiritual perfection consisteth, and ⟨p. 207⟩so are almost the chief parts of our glorification.
Reas. 3. Because as by this image we please God, who delighteth in his own image; so by the same alone we are made fit, and apt to glorify God as we ought.
Reas. 3. Because as by this image we please God, who delighteth in his owne image; so by the same alone we are made fit, and apt to glorifie God as we ought.
Reas. 4. Because we cannot be freed from the corruption and perverseness of the old man, but by virtue of this new man, as darkness is not removed out of this or that place but by letting in of light.