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Aggravation of sin and sinning against knowledge. Mercy. Delivered in several sermons upon divers…Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers…
Aggravation of sin and sinning against knowledge. Mercy. Delivered in several sermons upon divers occasions. By Tho: Goodwin B.D.Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers occasions. By Tho: Goodvvin B.D.
London: printed by M. Flesher for John Rothwell, 1637London: printed by M. Flesher for Iohn Rothwell, 1637
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.
THE TABLE.
The first general Head. What goodness, or bounty, patience, and long suffering are in God. page 3. Bounty in God described. ibid. 1. He must be a giver. 4 2. What he gives must be his own. ibid. 3. He must give largely. 5 4. He must give all he gives freely. 6 5. He looks for no recompense for time to come. 7 Patience is a further thing than mercy. 8 1. Though we injure God, and he be sensible of it, yet he is patient. ibid. 2. He vouchsafeth that time he forbears them in to repent. 9 3. He waits that men would come in and repent. ib. Lastly, Long suffering is but patience lengthened out farther. ibid.
THe first generall Head. What goodnesse, or bounty, patience, and long suffering are in God. page 3. Bounty in God described. ibid. 1. He must be a giver. 4 2. What he gives must be his owne. ibid. 3. He must give largely. 5 4. He must give all he gives freely. 6 5. He looks for no recompence for time to come. 7 Patience is a further thing than mercy. 8 1. Though we injure God, and he be sensible of it, yet he is patient. ibid. 2. He vouchsafeth that time he forbeares them in to repent. 9 3. He waits that men would come in and repent. ib. Lastly, Long suffering is but patience lengthned out farther. ibid.
The second general Head. Riches of this goodness spent on us. 10 1. They are riches in themselves. ibid. 2. All the world spend on these riches. 11 3. The time he hath forborne men. 12 4. The expensive prodigality of sinners in all ages. ibid. Patience is precious. 13 1. In regard of what those manifestations of his