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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 ways wherein he walks to us,1 because §1many of them are untraceable as unsearchable to us, are not here meant. As those of Election, Predestination, and Reprobation: the reasons whereof, if we take them comparatively, cannot be searched out, why God should take one and not another, it is an unsearchable way. But take a man single (out of comparison) the ways of God will appear to be right, even in that harsh decree which many men stumble so much at, for none are ever brought in the execution of that decree to be damned, but you shall see the ways of the Lord right, who a long time together offers them a great deal of mercy, which they refusing, and resisting the Holy Ghost, taking wilfully contrary courses, work out their own damnation. So that at length the issue of those unsearchable ways will appear ⟨p. 442⟩to be right in every particular, howsoever the comparative reason at the first, why God singles out one man and not another will not appear.
The wayes wherein he walkes to us,1 because §1many of them are untraceable as unsearchable to us, are not here meant. As those of Election, Predestination, and Reprobation: the reasons whereof, if we take them comparatively, cannot be searched out, why God should take one and not another, it is an unsearchable way. But take a man single (out of comparison) the wayes of God will appeare to be right, even in that harsh decree which many men stumble so much at, for none are ever brought in the execution of that decree to be damned, but you shall see the wayes of the Lord right, who a long time together offers them a great deale of mercy, which they refusing, and resisting the Holy Ghost, taking wilfully contrary courses, worke out their owne damnation. So that at length the issue of those unsearchable wayes will appeare ⟨p. 442⟩to be right in every particular, howsoever the comparative reason at the first, why God singles out one man and not another will not appeare.