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The riches of Gods love unto the vessels of mercy, consistent with his absolute…The riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute…
The riches of Gods love unto the vessels of mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the vessels of wrath, or, An answer unto a book entitled, Gods love unto mankind ... in two books, the first being a refutation of the said book, as it was presented in manuscript by Mr Hord unto Sir Nath. Rich., the second being an examination of certain passages inserted into M. Hord's discourse (formerly answered) by an author that conceals his name, but was supposed to be Mr Mason ... / by ... William Twice ... ; whereunto are annexed two tractates of the same author in answer unto D.H. ... ; together with a vindication of D. Twice from the exceptions of Mr John Goodwin in his Redemption redeemed, by Henry Jeans ...The riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the vessells of wrath, or, An answer unto a book entituled, Gods love unto mankind ... in two bookes, the first being a refutation of the said booke, as it was presented in manuscript by Mr Hord unto Sir Nath. Rich., the second being an examination of certain passages inserted into M. Hords discourse (formerly answered) by an author that conceales his name, but was supposed to be Mr Mason ... / by ... William Twisse ... ; whereunto are annexed two tractates of the same author in answer unto D.H. ... ; together with a vindication of D. Twisse from the exceptions of Mr John Goodwin in his Redemption redeemed, by Henry Jeanes ...
Oxford: printed by L.L. and H.H. for Tho. Robinson, 1653
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.
Thus is Gods Mercy advanced above his justice.
2. It is also compared with the affection of a Father to his Son, of a tender mother to her child, and of the most affectionate brute creatures to their young ones, and set above them all. It goes beyond a Fathers affection to his Sonne. Matth. 7. 11. If you that are evil, can give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask him? What doth this [quando magis] imply? but that Gods love outstrips a Fathers? and so it doth a Mothers too, Isai. 49. 15. Can a Woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the Son of her womb? yea she may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Women are compassionate towards their Children, because they are the fruit of their wombs, and are a part of themselves: but most indulgent are they toward those children to whom they are Nurses, as well as Mothers, to their sucking children: and yet Women may forget their children, their sucking children: but as for God, he can never forget his children. And as if those comparisons were too small to express Gods affection to his creatures, he proceeds farther, and compares himself, with one of the most affectionate Females among unreasonable 1creatures, the [Hen] Math. 23. 37. O Jerusalem Jerusalem, how oft would I have gathered thee, as a Hen gathereth her chicken under her wings? No bird (saith August.) expresseth such tender love to her ⟨p. 129⟩young ones, as the Hen doth. Videmus nidificare Passeres quoslibet, ante oculos nostros, herundines, circonias, columbas quotidie videmus nidificare, quos nisi quando in nidis videmus, parentes esse non agnoscimus. Gallina vero sic infirmatur in pullis suis, ut etiamsi ipsi pulli non sequantur, filios non videas, matrem tamen intelliges: Ita fit alis demissis, plumis hispida, voce rauca, omnibus membris demissa & abjecta, ut (quemadmo dum dixi) et si filios non videas matrem tamen intelligas. No Fowls discover themselves to be Mothers, so much as Hens do: others when we see them in their nest with their young, we know them to be Mothers, but no way else: but the Hen discovers her self to be so, even then when her Chickens do not follow her, her feathers stand up, her wings hang down, she clocks mournfully, and goes feebly; so that we may know her to be a Mother, when yet we cannot see her brood.