A57963:66
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
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Fourthly, If my soul, or your souls, O redeemed of the §4Lord, could be valued every one of them worth ten thousand millions of souls, and as many heavens, they could not over-weigh the soul of God; the soul that lodges in a glorious union with God: and the loss of heaven to the troubled soul of this noble, and high and lofty one, though but for a time, was more, and infinitely greater then my loss of heaven, and the loss of all the elect for eternity.
Fourthly, If my soule, or your soules, O redeemed of the §4Lord, could be valued every one of them worth ten thousand millions of soules, and as many heavens, they could not over-weigh the soule of God; the soule that lodges in a glorious union with God: and the losse of heaven to the troubled soule of this noble, and high and lofty one, though but for a time, was more, and infinitely greater then my losse of heaven, and the losse of all the elect for eternity.
Fifthly, I love not to dispute here, but God, if we speak of his absolute power, without respect to his free decree, could §5have pardoned sin without a ransom, and gifted all Mankind ⟨p. 8⟩and fallen Angels with heaven, without any satisfaction of either the sinner,1 or his Surety; for he neither punisheth sin, nor tenders heaven to Men or Angels by necessity of nature, as the fire casteth out heat, and the sun light; but freely: only supposing that frame of providence, and decrees of punishing, and redeeming sinners, that now is, the Lord could not but be steady in his decrees; yet this is but necessity conditional, and at the second hand. But here was the business, God, in the depth of his eternal wisdom, did so frame and draw the design and plot of saving lost man, as salvation was to run in no other channel,