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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
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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⟩contrary. What have I to do with sin in any kind? when grace hath altered the disposition of a mans heart, then sin and he are two: two indeed in the most opposite terms that may be, what have I any more to do with my former delightful sins? we are two now, for we were before nothing but sin. And indeed where this hatred is not, there men may leave sin, because sin leaves them: but this is not enough, God would have us to hate it with indignation, what have I now any more to do with it?
Reason. 2 Then againe, when once they are Gods children, they have a new life put into them, which hath antipathie to all that is contrary to it. Every life in any creature hath antipathie to every enemy thereof. There is antipathie in Doves to Birds of prey, and in the Lambe to the Wolfe, because they are enemies to the life and being of them. So in the soule of a Christian so farre as grace is renewed, there is an antipathie, aversation and abhorring of that which is ⟨p. 368⟩contrary. What have I to doe with sinne in any kinde? when grace hath altered the disposition of a mans heart, then sinne and he are two: two indeed in the most opposite tearmes that may be, what have I any more to doe with my former delightfull sinnes? we are two now, for we were before nothing but sinne. And indeed where this hatred is not, there men may leave sinne, because sinne leaves them: but this is not enough, God would have us to hate it with indignation, what have I now any more to doe with it?