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The Christians end. Or, The sweet sovereignty of Christ, over his members in life…The Christians end. Or, The sweet soveraignty of Christ, over his members in life…
The Christians end. Or, The sweet sovereignty of Christ, over his members in life and death Wherein is contained the whole scope of the godly mans life, with divers rules, motives and encouragements, to live and die to Jesus Christ. Being the substance of five sermons preached to the honourable society of Gray's Inn, by that learned and faithful minister of Gods Word, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honourable society.The Christians end. Or, The sweet soveraignty of Christ, over his members in life and death VVherein is contained the whole scope of the godly mans life, with divers rules, motives and incouragements, to live and die to Iesus Christ. Being the substance of five sermons preached to the honorable society of Grayes Inne, by that learned and faithfull minister of Gods Word, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honorable societie.
London: printed by Thomas Harper and Eliot's Court Press for Lawrence Chapman, 1639
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.
And then by Ransom. 1He hath paid a price to divine justice for us. For though God gave Christ to us from all eternity, and us to Christ, yet on these terms, that he should ransom us. God will not have his justice a looser, therefore Christ must pay a price to divine justice, such was his mercy, and the glory of his mercy to find ⟨p. 84⟩out such a way to satisfy justice, that God should dye.
And then by Ransome. 1He hath paid a price to divine justice for us. For though God gave Christ to us from all eternity, and us to Christ, yet on these tearmes, that he should ransome us. God will not have his justice a looser, therefore Christ must pay a price to divine justice, such was his mercy, and the glory of his mercy to find ⟨p. 84⟩out such a way to satisfie justice, that God should dye.
- 1Lord by ransom.Lord by ransome.