The common principiles of Christian religion clearly proved and singularly improved, or, A practical catechism wherein some of the most concerning-foundations of our faith are solidely laid down, and that doctrine, which is according to godliness, sweetly, yet pungently pressed home and most satisfyingly handled / by that worthy and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Hew Binning ...

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The common principiles of Christian religion clearly proved and singularly improved, or, A practical catechism wherein some of the most concerning-foundations of our faith are solidely laid down, and that doctrine, which is according to godliness, sweetly, yet pungently pressed home and most satisfyingly handled / by that worthy and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Hew Binning ...

Author

Binning, Hugh, 1627-1653.

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[Glasgow] :: Printed by R.S., printer to the town of Glasgow,

1666 [i.e. 1667]

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Catechetical sermons.

Sermons, English -- 17th century.

Theology, Doctrinal.

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"The common principiles of Christian religion clearly proved and singularly improved, or, A practical catechism wherein some of the most concerning-foundations of our faith are solidely laid down, and that doctrine, which is according to godliness, sweetly, yet pungently pressed home and most satisfyingly handled / by that worthy and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Hew Binning ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28171.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE READER.
• THE CONTENTS
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  • OF THE CHIEF END OF MAN. Rom. 11. 36. Of Him, and through Him, and for Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. And 1 Cor. 10, 31. Whatsoeuer ye do, do all to the glory of God.
  • Psal. 73. 24. to the end. Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, &c. Whom have I in heaven but Thee? &c. It is good for me to draw near to God, 1 John 1. 3. These things declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Iesus Christ. And John 17. 21, 22, 23. That they all may be one as we are one; I in them, and they in me, that they may be perfect in one, &c.
  • Of the SCRIPTURES. 2 Tim. 3. 16. All Scriptures is given, &c.
  • Joh. 5. 39. Search the Scriptures, for in them, &c. Eph. 2. 20. And are built upon the foundation of the Pro∣phets and Apostles.
  • Eph. 2. 20. And builded upon the foundation of the Apostles, &c.
  • 1 Tim. . 13. Hold fast that form of sound Words, which thou hast heard of me in Faith, and Love. &c.
  • Exod. 3. 13, 14. When they shal say unto me, What is his Name? What shal I say? And God said, I AM THAT I AM.
  • Exod. 3. 14. I AM THAT I AM. Psal. 19. 2. Before the mountains &c. from everlasting to ever∣lasting thou art God. Job 11. 7, 8, 9. Canst thou by searching find out God, &c.
  • Exod. 24 5, 6, 7, 8. The Lord, the Lord God, merci∣full and gracious, &c.
  • Joh. 4. 24. God is a Spirit, and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
  • Joh. 4. 24. GOD is a Spirit, &c.
  • Deut. 6. 4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. 1 Joh. 5. 7. There are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
  • Deut. 6. 4. and Ioh. 5. 7.
  • Eph. 1. Who worketh all things after the Counsell of his own will. Job▪ 23. He is in one mind, & who can turn him, &c.
  • Eph. 1. 11. In whom also we have obtained an inheri∣tance being predestinated, &c. Rom. 9. 22, 23. What if God, willing to shew his Wrath, and to make his power known. &c.
  • Rom. 9. 22. and Eph. 1. 11.
  • Heb. 11. 3. Through Faith we understand that the worlds were made, &c. with Gen. 1.
  • Heb. 11. 3. & Heb. 1. 14. Are they not all ministring Spirits, sent forth to minister, &c.
  • Gen. 1. 26, 27. And God said, Let us make man after our own Image, with Eph. 4. 24. and Heb. 3. 10.
  • Rom. 1. 36. Of him & through him, and for him are all things, &c. Psal. 103. 19. His Kingdome is over all. Matt. 10. 29. A Sparrow shal not fall without your Fathers will.
  • Gen. 2. 17. In that day thou eatest, thou snalt die the death. Gen. 1. 26. Let us make man according to our image.
  • Gal. 3. 12. The Law is not of faith, but the man that doth them shal live therein. Gen. 2. 17. What day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die.
  • Eccles. 7. 29. God made man upright, but he sought out many inventions.
  • Rom. 5. 22. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death past upon all men, for that all have sinned.
  • 1. Tim. 1. 15. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Iesus Christ came in the world to save sinners.
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