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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. 2. The Moral Law is divided into diverse words, or precepts.
It is gathered from this, in that God is said to have spoken all these words. They are called words, ⟨p. 211⟩because they are short; and as it were spoken summarily, or in one word. The chief division of them is into two Tables; the next into ten Precepts, or Commands.
Reas. 1. That we might the more easily understand the will of God, by parts delivered; which wholly together, and at once declared as it were in heaps, we could not so well understand. For the parts in a distribution, or division, make much for the declaration and illustration of any whole.
Reas. 2. That by this means our memory may be helped; because naturally our memory is strengthened from the order of the parts amongst themselves.
Reas. 2. That by this meanes our memory may be helped; because naturally our memory is strengthened from the order of the parts amongst themselves.