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An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ, and our union and communion with him by Edward Polhill ..., Esquire.
London: printed for Ben. Foster, 1675
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.
Smalcius denies God's Mercy to be infinite and immense,1 and the Author seems to hint some such thing; But Christ is God, and in his Divine Nature there can be no finite Attribute; and what if Divine Justice be natural and infinite too? Infinite Justice and Infinite Mercy may stand very well together; or what if Divine Justice break out against sinners? yet is Divine Mercy infinite for all that; nay, what if Divine Mercy had showed it self in gracious Effects to no one man in the World? yet still would it have been infinite [Greek or Hebrew], in the divine Essence: And what if the Author will not call this a personal Grace in the Mediator? It is doubtless a Grace in the Person of the Mediator; and what if Christ as Mediator be God's Servant? yet is he really God, and a Fountain of Grace, and that without the least exclusion of his Father being such: The Son made and upholds all things, and yet, I hope, the Father did and doth the same; and what if in the Gospel the Gate be strait, ⟨p. 244⟩and Way narrow? yet the Grace is never the less infinite, because it is dispensed in a way decorous to the Holiness of God: infinite Grace stands open to the greatest Sinners; and yet none shall partake of it but upon the holy Terms of the Gospel.
Smalcius denies God's Mercy to be infinite and immense,1 and the Author seems to hint some such thing; But Christ is God, and in his Divine Nature there can be no finite Attribute; and what if Divine Justice be natural and infinite too? Infinite Justice and Infinite Mercy may stand very well together; or what if Divine Justice break out against sinners? yet is Divine Mercy infinite for all that; nay, what if Divine Mercy had shewed it self in gracious Effects to no one man in the World? yet still would it have been infinite 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in the divine Essence: And what if the Author will not call this a personal Grace in the Mediator? It is doubtless a Grace in the Person of the Mediator; and what if Christ as Mediator be God's Servant? yet is he really God, and a Fountain of Grace, and that without the least exclusion of his Father being such: The Son made and upholds all things, and yet, I hope, the Father did and doth the same; and what if in the Gospel the Gate be strait,