The Christian life from its beginning, to its consummation in glory : together with the several means and instruments of Christianity conducing thereunto : with directions for private devotion and forms of prayer fitted to the several states of Christians / by John Scott ...
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The Christian life from its beginning, to its consummation in glory : together with the several means and instruments of Christianity conducing thereunto : with directions for private devotion and forms of prayer fitted to the several states of Christians / by John Scott ...
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Scott, John, 1639-1695.
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London :: Printed by M. Clark, for Walter Kettilby ...,
1681.
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Christian life -- Anglican authors.
Devotional exercises.
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"The Christian life from its beginning, to its consummation in glory : together with the several means and instruments of Christianity conducing thereunto : with directions for private devotion and forms of prayer fitted to the several states of Christians / by John Scott ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58787.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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CHAP. II.
Concerning the Means by which the End of the Christian Life is to be obtained; that the Means must be more and greater than what was necessary to the first End of man, viz. the Enjoyment of an earthly Paradice, p. 33.34. &c. that the great Distance of man from Heaven in his degenerate State creates a Ne∣cessity of many more Means than otherwise would be needful, p. 35.36. &c. two Kinds of Means necessary to our attainment of Heaven, viz. the Practice of the Vertues of Christianity, and the Vse of the instrumen∣tal Duties of Christianity, p. 38.39. &c. that the instrumental Duties of Christianity conduce no farther to our Happiness than as they are Means of Vertue, proved in four par∣ticulars, p. 42.43. &c.
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