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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
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.
9 Though it be true that every sin is finite as considered in respect of the act: as •it is a transient action it is finite. But it is infinite in respect of the inherence in the subject. For the foul of man is immortal, and so the sin which sticketh on it, is made immortal with it. For the guilt can no ways be taken from it, but by imputing it to Christ. And besides the guilt contracted by the fact, there is a blot ⟨p. 476⟩that doth stain the soul: as the scarlet or crimson die doth the silk or wool: which can no ways be undyed or gotten out but by the blood of the Lamb. All the Saints had stains, blemishes, and polluted colours; butq They washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 1 Cor. 6.11. Such were ye, but you are washed, &c. Now those turpitudes and aspersions so died in grain by sin in the soul, if they be not purged by him, remain for ever inseparable: and can no more but taken from it, than the spots from the Leopard, or the scarlet can fade till the cloth be worn out. So long therefore as this stain abides, the wrath of God abides: and as that tincture can never be gotten off, so the fire of hell can never be bu••• out. There is no more extinguishing the one, than relinquishing the other; both remain for ever.
9 Though it be true that every sin is finite as considered in respect of the act: as •it is a transient action it is finite. But it is infinite in respect of the inherence in the subiect. For the foule of man is immortall, and so the sin which sticketh on it, is made immortall with it. For the guilt can no wayes be taken from it, but by imputing it to Christ. And besides the guilt contracted by the fact, there is a blot ⟨p. 476⟩that doth staine the soule: as the skarlet or crimsin die doth the silke or wooll: which can no wayes be undyed or gotten out but by the blood of the Lambe. All the Saints had staines, blemishes, and polluted coulours; but