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Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…
Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
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.
From this word, I will spare them as a man spares his Son, 1take Notice, that the best need sparing,2 Psalm 130.3. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark Iniquities, Lord, who shall stand? The Papists speak of Merits, but how can we merit when our best services are so defective that we need sparing? how can these two stand together, our meriting ⟨p. 203⟩and God's sparing? what will become of us without sparing Mercy? we had need pray as Nehemiah, cap. 13.22. Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and spare me according to the greatness of thy Mercy. Let us fly to this Asylum, Lord spare us as a Father spares his Son.
- 11 Use. Inform.1 Vse. Inform.
- 21 Branch.
See Gods different dealing with the Godly and the Wicked;1 the Lord will not spare the Wicked, Jer. 13.14. I will not Pity, nor spare, nor have Mercy, but destroy them. 'Tis sad, when the Prisoner begs of the Judge to spare him, but the Judge will show him no favour. Gods cup of wrath is unmixed, Rev. 14.10. Yet it is said to be mixed, Psal. 78.5