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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
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. Because it prescribes all the duties of man, whether they look at God himself directly, as in the first Table; or our neighbour, as in the second.
Reas. 2. Because in all those duties, it not only requires the works themselves, but also the most perfect way of working them; to wit, that they come from the whole heart, and from the bottom of the heart; that is, from the entire strength of the whole man, and with perfect purity and sincerity; and that they be directed to the glory of God.
Reas. 2. Because in all those duties, it not onely requires the workes themselves, but also the most perfect way of working them; to wit, that they come from the whole heart, and from the bottome of the heart; that is, from the intire strength of the whole man, and with perfect purity and sincerity; and that they be directed to the glory of God.
Reas. 3. Because it contains in it self a delineation or draught of that perfection, whereunto man in his first or innocent nature was created, according to the image of God. And therefore also it is called the Law of Nature, because that rule of life, which was written in the heart of man, according to its primitive and pure nature, is in this Law explained.
Reas. 3. Because it containes in it self a delineation or draught of that perfection, whereunto man in his first or innocent nature was created, according to the image of God. And therefore also it is called the Law of Nature, because that rule of life, which was written in the heart of man, according to its primitive and pure nature, is in this Law explained.