The Soul's Conflict with Itself

Here also we see to whom to return ¹praise in all our deliverances, even to the God of our salvation. The virgin Mary was stirred up to magnify the Lord, but why? Her spirit rejoiced in God her Saviour. Whosoever is the instrument ²of any good, yet salvation is of the Lord; whatsoever brings it, he sends it. Hence in their holy feasts for any deliverance, the cup they drank of, was called the Cup of salvation: and therefore David when he summons his thoughts, what to render unto God? he ³resolves upon this, to take the Cup of salvation. But always remember this, that when we think of God as salvation, we must think of him as he is in Christ to his. For, so every thing in God is saving, even his most terrible attributes of justice and power: out of ⟨p. 468⟩Christ, the sweetest things in God are terrible. Salvation it self will not save out of Christ; who is the only way of salvation, called the way, the truth, ⁴and the life.

Here also we see to whom to return ¹praise in all our deliverances, even to the God of our salvation. The virgin Mary was stirred up to magnifie the Lord, but why? Her spirit rejoyced in God her Saviour. Whosoever is the instrument ²of any good, yet salvation is of the Lord; whatsoever brings it, hee sends it. Hence in their holy feasts for any deliverance, the cup they drank of, was called the Cup of salvation: and therefore David when he summons his thoughts, what to render unto God? hee ³resolves upon this, to take the Cup of salvation. But alwayes remember this, that when we thinke of God as salvation, wee must thinke of him as hee is in Christ to his. For, so every thing in God is saving, even his most terrible attributes of justice and power: out of