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The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs
The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs ; published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole and Edward Cole, 1661
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.
First, The discovering work, Its Faith that discovers clearly and with power the great Mysteries of the Gospel, the great Work of God, wherein the Glory of the great God appears in providing such a way, for the Reconciliation of lost man unto himself, such a glorious means of Mediation for the satisfying of his Justice, and for the making up of the breach that is between man and him. Its Faith and only Faith, that can hold out the excellency and Beauty of God appearing in the Gospel; And to show fully all that good that God intends to communicate to the Children of men in this way of Mediation.
First, The discovering work, Its Faith that discovers clearly and with power the great Misteries of the Gospel, the great Work of God, wherein the Glory of the great God appeares in providing such a way, for the Reconciliation of lost man unto himself, such a glorious means of Mediation for the satisfying of his Justice, and for the making up of the breach that is between man and him. Its Faith and only Faith, that can hold out the excellency and Beauty of God appearing in the Gospel; And to shew fully al that good that God intends to communicate to the Children of men in this way of Mediation.
Secondly, The discovering work of Faith is, in setting before the Soul not only the Glory and excellency and certainty of the work of Mediation in Christ: but ⟨p. 189⟩it discovers unto the Soul the Riches of the freeness of the grace of God in Christ: it is Faith that must persuade the Soul that the way of deliverance comes only from free grace, that God doth Justify the ungodly, that it is nothing in the creature for which God comes to justify.
Secondly, The discovering work of Faith is, in setting before the Soul not only the Glory and excellency and certainty of the work of Mediation in Christ: but ⟨p. 189⟩it discovers unto the Soul the Riches of the freeness of the grace of God in Christ: it is Faith that must perswade the Soul that the way of deliverance comes only from free grace, that God doth Justifie the ungodly, that it is nothing in the creature for which God comes to justifie.