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A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is
A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is, by pregnant texts of Scripture vindicated from false glosses / by Anthony Burgess.
London : s.n., 1658
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.
This promise is made a consequent of Gods Reconciliation with Noah, upon whose Sacrifice it is said, God smelled a sweet savour, speaking after the manner of men, not that God did regard the material Sacrifice, for the smell of that must needs be distasteful and unsavoury, but because Noah did it with a pure and holy heart, and withal chiefly, because this Sacrifice of Noah was typical of Christs sacrificing himself in time, by whom alone God becometh propitious; For Christs offering up of himself is said to be Ephes. 5. 2. A Sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour, which was chiefly in the Eucharistical Sacrifices, not that Christs death is compared to them only, as the Socinians would have it, but principally and chiefly to the Expiatory Sacrifices, as appeareth in the Epistle to the Hebrews, only in Christs death, there was that which was in Eucharistical Offerings, a sweet savour unto God, whereby he became propitious unto mankind; God being thus graciously pleased, we have this promise of God declared in the Text, wherein is considerable,
This promise is made a consequent of Gods Reconciliation with Noah, upon whose Sacrifice it is said, God smelled a sweet savour, speaking after the manner of men, not that God did regard the material Sacrifice, for the smell of that must needs be distastfull and unsavoury, but because Noah did it with a pure and holy heart, and withall chiefly, because this Sacrifice of Noah was typical of Christs sacrificing himself in time, by whom alone God becometh propitious; For Christs offering up of himself is said to be Ephes. 5. 2. A Sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour, which was chiefly in the Eucharistical Sacrifices, not that Christs death is compared to them only, as the Socinians would have it, but principally and chiefly to the Expiatory Sacrifices, as appeareth in the Epistle to the Hebrews, only in Christs death, there was that which was in Eucharistical Offerings, a sweet savour unto God, whereby he became propitious unto mankind; God being thus graciously pleased, we have this promise of God declared in the Text, wherein is considerable,