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The world that now is; and the world that is to comeThe vvorld that now is; and the vvorld that is to come
The world that now is; and the world that is to come: or The first and second coming of Jesus Christ Wherein several prophecies not yet fulfilled are expounded. By Han. Knollys, a servant of Jesus Christ. Rev. I. 19.The vvorld that now is; and the vvorld that is to come: or The first and second coming of Jesus Christ Wherein several prophecies not yet fulfilled are expounded. By Han. Knollys, a servant of Jesus Christ. Rev. I. 19.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden, 1681
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.
The first Work that God doth ordinarily by his holy Spirit and Word upon a sinful sinner in the Ministry and Administration of the Gospel of his Grace, is a work of Conviction, John 8.9. Being convicted in their own conscience. Tit. 1.9. To convince gainsayers, Jam. 2.9. They are convinced of the Law as Transgressors. And Joh. 16.8, 9. He shall reprove the world of sin. The World, that is to say, those sinners that are without Christ, and without God in the World, Eph. 2.12.
Now God Reproves the sinner, and sets his sins in order before him, Psal. 50.21. and makes him possess the sins of his youth, Job 13.26. God doth by the Scripture (as in a Glass) give the sinner a sight of his sinful Nature; shows him the sinfulness of his sins, Rom. 7.13. God doth by his Spirit and Word convince the sinners conscience of his Transgressions against his holy Law, and against the Gospel of his Grace. The holy Spirit, ordinarily, by the Ministry of the Word, convinceth ⟨p. 12⟩the sinner of his Original corruption; tells him, that every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed; Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death, Jam. 1.14, 15. The wages of sin is death,