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Gospel-conversation
Gospel-conversation: wherein is showed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Cripplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nigh, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.Gospel-conversation: wherein is shewed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Criplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
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.
Now the Fourth thing that the Gospel reveals, is this, That though God be infinitely merciful, yet He is merciful in such a way that justice shall not be wronged: and this is proper to the Gospel too. It's impossible for Men or Angels to come to understand this Mystery but by this Gospel-light, how God should be infinitely merciful, and yet that He should be infinitely just too; this is held forth in Rom. 3. 25, 26. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God: To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Now this is a great mystery of the Gospel; a Scripture that Luther fasted and prayed that he might understand, and he was a great while before he could know the mind of God therein. Now the Gospel saith this, I will manifest infinite riches of my mercy, but yet so as my infinite justice shall be no loser, and therefore though I le save Man-kind, yet I'll save them by such a way, as I'll have as much glory of my justice as if all the men in the world had bin damned to all eternity: this is the mystery of the Gospel, and 'tis clear, that though God manifest infinite mercy, yet God hath a way for the manifestation of his mercy in the Gospel, by which the justice of God is as much honoured and satisfied as if all the men in the world had been cast into everlasting burnings, that is, through his Sons dying for mans sin, being made a curse for us; this is the great point of the Gospel, which unless we understand, we know nothing of Christ and his Gospel as we ought to know it. Most men and women in the world they seek to God for mercy, Lord be merciful to me, a sinner, but they think not of a way of Gods showing mercy, so as yet ⟨p. 75⟩he may have the glory of infinite justice, God seals the forgiveness of sin in the Court of Justice as well as in the Court of Mercy;
Now the Fourth thing that the Gospel reveals, is this, That though God be infinitly merciful, yet He is merciful in such a way that justice shall not be wronged: and this is proper to the Gospel too. It's impossible for Men or Angels to come to understand this Mystery but by this Gospel-light, how God should be infinitly merciful, and yet that He should be infinitly just too; this is held forth in