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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 4: Now is the time. OR, Instructions for the present improving the season of Grace. Serm. IV.
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.
1. First, This time is called accepted. The word for [accepted,] in the greek [Greek or Hebrew], in this its composition imports a well-pleasing: Yea, a very much accepted time. The Hebrew word Ratson, from whence it is taken, signifies the time of free Grace, free favour, or free good will: it is taken out of Isa. 49.8. and the seventy Interpreters they render it in Psal. 69.13. [Greek or Hebrew]. a time of free favour, free good will; and Symmachus renders it [Greek or Hebrew], a time of reconciliation, that is, a time wherein God will graciously accept sinners out of free Grace to be reconciled unto them. For when time is said here to be accepted, and an accepted time, 'tis to be understood figuratively, as intending the time wherein God will by free Grace accept of man, or wherein God is pleased out of his free good will to show himself benevolentem hominibus (as Grotius expresseth it) gracious and favourable to man, in that way of accepting him through Christ.
1. First, This time is called accepted. The word for [accepted,] in the greek 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in this its composition imports a well-pleasing: Yea, a very much accepted time. The Hebrew word Ratson, from whence it is taken, signifies the time of free Grace, free favour, or free good will: it is taken out of Isa. 49.8. and the seventy Interpreters they render it in Psal. 69.13. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. a time of free favour, free good will; and Symmachus renders it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a time of reconciliation, that is, a time wherein God will graciously accept sinners out of free Grace to be reconciled unto them. For when time is said here to be accepted, and an accepted time, 'tis to be understood figuratively, as intending the time wherein God will by free Grace accept of man, or wherein God is pleased out of his free good will to shew himself benevolentem hominibus (as Grotius expresseth it) gracious and favourable to man, in that way of accepting him through Christ.