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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
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.
[4.] The Duration of it. The Sea vomits up nothing that it takes into its lower bowels, things cast into the depths of the Ocean never appear more. Rivers may be turned, and drained, but who can lave out the Ocean?
[4.] The Duration of it. The Sea vomits up nothing that it takes into its lower bowels, things cast into the depths of the Ocean never appear more. Rivers may be turned, and drain'd, but who can lave out the Ocean?
[2.] Not imputing. Not putting upon account, not charging the debt in a legal process. To this is equivalent the expression of not remembering, Isa. 43.25. I will not remember their sins. An act of oblivion is past upon sin. This notes,
[2.] Not imputing. Not putting upon account, not charging the debt in a legal process. To this is aequivalent the expression of not remembring, Isa. 43.25. I will not remember their sins. An act of oblivion is past upon sin. This notes,
[1.] That God will not exact the debt of thee. God doth not absolutely forget sin, for what he knows never slips out of his knowledge. So that his not remembering is rather an act of his will than a defect in his understanding. As when an act of oblivion is passed, the fact committed is not Physically forgotten, but legally, because the fear of punishment is removed. God puts them out of the memory of his wrath, though not out of the memory of his knowledge. He doth remember them paternally to chastise thee for them, though not judicially to condemn thee.