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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Mercy of GOD.
THE next Attribute is God's Goodness or Mercy: Mercy is the Result and Effect of God's Goodness, Psal. 33.5. Psal. 119.64. So then this is the next Attribute, God's Goodness or Mercy. The most Learned of the Heathens thought they gave their God Jupiter two Golden Characters, when they styled him, [Greek or Hebrew], Good and Great: both these meet in God, Greatness and Goodness, Majesty and Mercy.
THE next Attribute is God's Goodness or Mercy: Mercy is the Result and Effect of God's Goodness, Psal. 33.5. Psal. 119.64. So then this is the next Attribute, God's Goodness or Mercy. The most Learned of the Heathens thought they gave their God Iupiter two Golden Characters, when they stiled him, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Good and Great: both these meet in God, Greatness and Goodness, Majesty and Mercy.
God is, 1. Essentially good in himself. And, 2. Relative good to us. They are both put together, Psal. 119.68. Thou art good, and dost good. This Relative goodness is nothing else but his Mercy, which is an innate Propenseness in God to pity and succour such as are in Misery. Concerning God's Mercy,
God is, 1. Essentially good in himself. And, 2. Relative good to us. They are both put together,