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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 32
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2. It is good to know, that the mercy of God is taken in Scripture sometimes Actively, for that essential Attribute in him, as Exod. 34. 6, 7. where the Lord himself proclaimed his own Name, Merciful, Gracious. Long-suffering, &c. Though Divines do give notional differences between his Goodness, Mercy, Grace, and Long-suffering, yet I shall not attend to that. Or Passively, for the effects of his mercy, as here in the Text, The Father of mercies; so when God doth threaten to take away his mercies, that is, the effects of his mercy, not the attribute of mercy. This you must diligently attend to, because the effects of Gods mercy are more and less, but the attribute in God cannot be so, God is not more or less merciful; neither doth Mercy as an attribute oppose Justice, as an attribute, but the effects of Gods Mercy may be, and are contrary to the effects of his Justice.
2. It is good to know, that the mercy of God is taken in Scripture sometimes Actively, for that essential Attribute in him, as Exod. 34. 6, 7. where the Lord himself proclaimed his own Name, Mercifull, Grucious. Long-suffering, &c. Though Divines do give notional differences between his Goodness, Mercy, Grace, and Long-suffering, yet I shall not attend to that. Or Passively, for the effects of his mercy, as here in the Text, The Father of mercies; so when God doth threaten to take away his mercies, that is, the effects of his mercy, not the attribute of mercy. This you must diligently attend to, because the effects of Gods mercy are more and less, but the attribute in God cannot be so, God is not more or less mercifull; neither doth Mercy as an attribute oppose Justice, as an attribute, but the effects of Gods Mercy may be, and are contrary to the effects of his Justice.