A25294:983
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 Is of Direction, that our first and chief care may be taken up in those duties, that belong to God.
Doct. 6. The principal duty to God is, that we have him only for our God.
Doct. 6. The principall duty to God is, that we have him onely for our God.
And to have God for our God, is in general to give God that honour, which is due unto his excellent Majesty: And to this are required.
1. That we seek the true knowledge of him, with all care, as he hath revealed himself in his word; because we cannot honour him rightly, whose nature and will we are ignorant of: John 4. 12. Rom. 10 14.
1. That we seek the true knowledge of him, with all care, as he hath revealed himself in his word; because we cannot honour him rightly, whose nature and will we are ignorant of: