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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 3: Quest. How God is his Peoples great Reward. SERMON III.
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.
5. God is Merces Infinita, an Infinite Reward; and being infinite, these two things follow: 1. This Reward cannot come to us by way of Merit: Can we merit God? can finite Creatures merit an infinite Reward? 2. God being an infinite Reward, there can be no Defect or Scantiness in it: there is no want in that which is infinitex. Some may ask, Is God sufficient for every individual Saint? Yes, If the Sun which is but a finite Creature, disperseth its light to the Universe, then much more God who is infinite, distributes Glory to the whole number of the Elect. Every individual Christian hath a Propriety in a Community; as every Person enjoys the whole Sun to himself, so every Believer possesseth whole God to himself: the Lord hath Land enough to give all his Heirs. Throw a thousand Buckets into the Sea, and there is water enough in the Sea to fill them: Though there be Millions of Saints and Angels, there is enough in God to fill them.
5. God is Merces Infinita, an Infinite Reward; and being infinite, these two things follow: 1. This Reward cannot come to us by way of Merit: Can we merit God? can finite Creatures merit an infinite Reward? 2. God being an infinite Reward, there can be no Defect or Scantiness in it: there is no want in that which is infinitex. Some may ask, Is God sufficient for every individual Saint? Yes, If the Sun which is but a finite Creature, disperseth its light to the Universe, then much more God who is infinite, distributes Glory to the whole number of the Elect. Every individual Christian hath a Propriety in a Community; as every Person enjoyes the whole Sun to himself, so every Believer possesseth whole God to himself: the Lord hath Land enough to give all his Heirs. Throw a thousand Buckets into the Sea, and there is water enough in the Sea to fill them: Though there be Millions of Saints and Angels, there is enough in God to fill them.
- xQuicquid praeter Deum est, Dulce non est. Aug.