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The returning backslider, or, A commentary upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy…The returning backslider, or, A commentarie upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy…
The returning backslider, or, A commentary upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy of the prophet Hosea Wherein is showed the large extent of Gods free mercy, even unto the most miserable forlorn and wretched sinners that may be, upon their humiliation and repentance. Preached by that learned and judicious divine, Dr. Sibbs, late preacher to the honourable society of Gray's Inn, and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by his own permission before his death.The returning backslider, or, A commentarie upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy of the prophet Hosea Wherein is shewed the large extent of Gods free mercy, even unto the most miserable forlorne and wretched sinners that may be, upon their humiliation and repentance. Preached by that learned and judicious divine, Dr. Sibbs, late preacher to the honourable society of Grayes Inne, and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by his owne permission before his death.
London: printed by George for George Edwards, 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.
The particular then here, is indignation and hatred, What have I now any more to do with Idols? So that the proper affection in Gods children, which should be conversant about that which is ill, and sinfully ill, is hatred and indignation, here is hatred with indignation, the extent of the affection.
The particular then here, is indignation and hatred, What have I now any more to doe with Idols? So that the proper affection in Gods children, which should be conversant about that which is ill, and sinnefully ill, is hatred and indignation, here is hatred with indignation, the extent of the affection.
Reason. 1 The reason whereof is, when Gods children are once converted, they have a new nature put into them, like unto Christ whose Spirit they have, what he hates they hate. He hates all sin, and nothing but sin, he hates the Devil himself for sin, and no further.
Reason. 1 The reason whereof is, when Gods children are once converted, they have a new nature put into them, like unto Christ whose Spirit they have, what he hates they hate. Hee hates all sin, and nothing but sin, hee hates the Divell himselfe for sin, and no further.
Reason. 2 Then again, when once they are Gods children, they have a new life put into them, which hath antipathy to all that is contrary to it. Every life in any creature hath antipathy to every enemy thereof. There is antipathy in Doves to Birds of prey, and in the Lamb to the Wolfe, because they are enemies to the life and being of them. So in the soul of a Christian so far as grace is renewed, there is an antipathy, aversation and abhorring of that which is ⟨p. 368⟩