Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

First: Negatively: He spared not his own Son. There is a three-fold ¹mercy in God, viz. Preventing mercy, which steps between us and trouble. Delivering mercy, which takes us out of the hand of trouble: And Sparing mercy, which though it do not prevent nor deliver, yet it mitigates, allays, and graciously ⟨p. 107⟩moderates our troubles; and though sparing mercy be desirable and sweet, yet it is the least and lowest sort of mercy that God exercises towards any. Though it be mercy to have the time of sufferings shortened, or one degree of suffering abated; yet these are the lowest and least effects of mercy, and yet these were denied to Jesus Christ, when he stood in our room to satisfy for us. God spared not one drop, he abated not one degree of that wrath which Christ was to suffer for us.

First: Negatively: He spared not his own Son. There is a three-fold ¹mercy in God, viz. Preventing mercy, which steps between us and trouble. Delivering mercy, which takes us out of the hand of trouble: And Sparing mercy, which though it do not prevent nor deliver, yet it mitigates, allays, and graciously ⟨p. 107⟩moderates our troubles; and though sparing mercy be desirable and sweet, yet it is the least and lowest sort of mercy that God exercises towards any. Though it be mercy to have the time of sufferings shortned, or one degree of suffering abated; yet these are the lowest and least effects of mercy, and yet these were denied to Jesus Christ, when he stood in our room to satisfie for us. God spared not one drop, he abated not one degree of that wrath which Christ was to suffer for us.

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