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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
A DISCOURSE OF The Pardon of Sin. › Application 3: 3 Use Of Examination.
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.
7. Hopes of Gods mercy are no grounds of thy being pardoned. Gods mercy is not barely enough, for then Christ needed not have dyed for sin. Nor Christs death enough, without the condition of that covenant whereby God will make over the interest and merits of his death to thee. Gods mercy must be considered, but in Gods own way. God is merciful, but his Mercy must not abolish his Truth. Doth not a Judges mercy consist with condemning ⟨p. 115⟩a malefactor? God hath been merciful to thee, and thou wouldst not accept of it; thou wouldst not hear mercy speak in a day of grace; why then should not justice speak in a day of vengeance? Thou wouldst not hear a God of mercy when he cried to thee, how then should mercy hear thee when thou comest to beg?
7. Hopes of Gods mercy are no grounds of thy being pardoned. Gods mercy is not barely enough, for then Christ needed not have dyed for sin. Nor Christs death enough, without the condition of that covenant whereby God will make over the interest and merits of his death to thee. Gods mercy must be considered, but in Gods own way. God is merciful, but his Mercy must not abolish his Truth. Doth not a Judges mercy consist with condemning ⟨p. 115⟩a malefactor? God hath been merciful to thee, and thou would'st not accept of it; thou wouldst not hear mercy speak in a day of grace; why then should not justice speak in a day of vengeance? Thou would'st not hear a God of mercy when he cryed to thee, how then should mercy hear thee when thou comest to begg?
2. Some false grounds, why those that are pardoned, think themselves not pardoned.