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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 3 › Chapter 2 › Section 2: Of Considering Jesus in that Respect.
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.
it is grace, because nothing but grace and mercy can forgive: it is grace, because God, if he will, hath power in his hand to Revenge; he doth not pass by sin as men do offences, when they dissemble forgiveness; they may forgive, because they have not power to avenge:1 it is otherwise with God; To me belongs Vengeance and Recompense, saith God: He is able to destroy and yet he chooseth to forgive; this is his Name, strong and gracious.
it is grace, because nothing but grace and mercy can forgive: it is grace, because God, if he will, hath power in his hand to Revenge; he doth not pass by sin as men do offences, when they dissemble forgiveness; they may forgive, because they have not power to avenge:1 it is otherwise with God; To me belonges Vengeance and Recompence, saith God: He is able to destroy and yet he chuseth to forgive; this is his Name, strong and gracious.
- 1Dut 32.35 Exod. 36.•4
O my Soul thou art apt to complain, what? will the Lord forgive my Sins? What reason hath God to look on me, to Pardon me, to pluck me as a firebrand out of the Fire of Hell? why should God forgive me? But now consider (if thy heart be humbled) — the Lord will do it. —
1. Because he delighteth in Mercy; it is a pleasure to God to forgive Sins: