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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 5: Quest. How is Gospel-Grace the best Motive to Holiness? SERMON V.
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.
I do not wonder that our being thus made whole only through the Name of Christ should be by so many gainsaid and ridiculed;1 for 'tis hard to bring our Thoughts into subjection unto the Kingdom of God and Jesus Christ: and when I read it so often called the Righteousness of ⟨p. 69⟩God in Scripture, (as surely he alone could find out the Ransom, &c.) I know it must be something beyond the ordinary apprehension of Man; for no man knows the things of God, but the Spirit of God, 2and Nil diurnum nox capit.
I do not wonder that our being thus made whole only thro the Name of Christ should be by so many gainsayed and ridiculed;1 for 'tis hard to bring our Thoughts into subjection unto the Kingdom of God and Jesus Christ: and when I read it so often call'd the Righteousness of ⟨p. 69⟩God in Scripture, (as surely he alone could find out the Ransom, &c.) I know it must be something beyond the ordinary apprehension of Man; for no man knows the things of God, but the Spirit of God, 2and Nil diurnum nox capit.