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Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself
Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soul-suffering, his loveliness in his death, and the efficacy thereof in which some cases of soul-trouble in week believers ... are opened ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John Chap. XII, vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 ... / by Samuel Rutherford.Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soule-suffering, his lovelynesse in his death, and the efficacie thereof in which some cases of soule-trouble in weeke beleevers ... are opened ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John Chap. XII, vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 ... / by Samuel Rutherford.
London: printed by J.D. for Andrew Crooke, 1647
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.
11. Its a dream, that the Gospel was revealed to the Devils before their fall; for then their own fall and future misery, that they were to be kept eternally in chains of darkness, on the same ground, must be revealed to them. What horror and sadness must fill Adams mind, and the Angels spirit, if hell and the necessity of God manifested in the flesh, was revealed to them in the state of happiness? 2. The mystery of the riches of the glorious Gospel was hid, from the beginning of the world; and the glorious elect Angels come in time, Ephes. 3.8, 9, 10. to learn that manifold wisdom of God; and delight, in Peters time, to look into it, as to a great secret of God, 1 Pet. 1.12. We have not then reason to think this secret was whispered in the ears of the Devils, before they fell.
11. Its a dreame, that the Gospel was revealed to the Devils before their fall; for then their owne fall and future misery, that they were to be kept eternally in chaines of darknesse, on the same ground, must be revealed to them. What horror and sadnesse must fill Adams mind, and the Angels spirit, if hell and the necessity of God manifested in the flesh, was revealed to them in the state of happinesse? 2. The mystery of the riches of the glorious Gospel was hid, from the beginning of the world; and the glorious elect Angels come in time, Ephes. 3.8, 9, 10. to learn that manifold wisdome of God; and delight, in Peters time, to looke into it, as to a great secret of God, 1 Pet. 1.12. Wee have not then reason to think this secret was whispered in the eares of the Devils, before they fell.
- 1The ill Angels before their fall knew nothing of the incarnation of Christ.