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Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternity, and mans…Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternitie, and mans…
Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternity, and mans humanity, III. The plantation of the righteous / by T.H.Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternitie, and mans humanitie, III. The plantation of the righteous / by T.H.
London: printed by M.P. for John Stafford, 1638London: printed by M.P. for Iohn Stafford, 1638
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First, what is meant by spirit; secondly, what it is to strive: first Gods Spirit we may understand to be the holy Ghost, the third person in. Trinity: he is said to strive, not miraculously, but mediately by his means, the Word of God, Ministers; he is said to strive with this generation by the Ministry o• the Word, and Noah and Enoch in that Ministry▪ Gods Spirit strives with wicked men, they spake no• in their own words, but i• the 2 Pet. 2. holy men spake Gods Word as they do; the Lord doth put his hand to ⟨p. 69⟩•he work: the meaning is, I •ave sent Noah and Enoch, •hey spake not their own •ords only, but ye have •ven against my good spirit: what it is to strive: •e Lord will not strive al•ayes, the meaning is not, […] judgement, Eccles. 6.10. •he Lord he deals with •oore sinners after their nacre, as a reasonable crea•re, he enters to reasons, •nd goes to Law, and makes •ite to draw them home to •im; for this I take to be the •eaning, his Ministers came •metimes to exhort, some•mes to comfort, and some•mes to reprove, and so we •e to Law with God aaine.