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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
Thirdly, That when we come truly to believe in Christ, even then we are not to think to be free from all that will assay and seek to condemn us and bring us to perdition and destruction.
Fourthly, That though there be many, as the Devil and all his instruments, that aim and endeavour by many means to spoil us of our faith, and hinder our salvation, and so bring us to destruction, yet shall none ever be able to do it.
Lastly, We will make application of all to our selves,
For the first, namely what it is to condemn. It is taken 1diversly, either in foro publico (as in our courts) when one is guilty of some offence against the Law, and so is bound over by sentence of condemnation to suffer for it. Or else in foro conscientiae, in the court of Conscience, as here before God, and it is nothing else but to have a Conscience guilty of sin, and for that to be judged of God to Eternal punishment: even to be separated from the Love of God in Christ for ever and ever; And all this presupposeth a guiltiness for sin that justifies the Judgement of God in regard of the just sentence of condemnation. Now who shall make the true believer guilty before God, being once in Christ? The answer is made by the Apostle, There is not one that can.