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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
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.
SECTION IV. Showing that the evil of sin works for good to the Godly.
SECTION IV. Shewing that the evil of sin works for good to the Godly.
4. The evil of sin works for good; not in its own nature (for it is damnable), but God in his infinite wisdom over-ruling it. This is St Austins gloss upon the Text*. I may now say, as the Apostle in another sense, 1 Cor. 15.51. Behold, I show you a Mystery: Sin it self to the Godly works for good. Indeed 'tis matter of wonder, that any honey should come out of this Lyon. — We may understand it in a double sense.
4. THe evil of sin works for good; not in its own nature (for it is damnable), but God in his infinite wisdom over-ruling it. This is St Austins glosse upon the Text*. I may now say, as the Apostle in another sence, 1 Cor. 15.51. Behold, I shew you a Mysterie: Sin it self to the Godly works for good. Indeed 'tis matter of wonder, that any honey should come out of this Lyon. — We may understand it in a double sence.
- *Etiam percatum ipsum in bonum convertit Deu•. Aug.