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True gain, opened in a sermon preached at Pauls, Nov. 9. 1656
True gain, opened in a sermon preached at Pauls, Nov. 9. 1656 by Edward Reynolds, D.D.
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 1659
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 infinite mercy of God in revealing Christ unto us, bringing life and immortality to light by the Gospel, and waiting upon us, that he may be gracious unto us. If Thales the Philosopher gave thanks that he was born of a Grecian,1 and not a Barbarian, how much more should we bless God, that we are Christians, and not only Philosophers; that the Lord hath taken care not only to adorn our souls, but to save them.
•. The infinite mercy of God in revealing Christ unto us, bringing life and immortality to light by the Gospel, and waiting upon us, that he may be gratious unto us. If Thales the Philosopher gave thankes that he was born of a Grecian,1 and not a Barbarian, how much more should we bless God, that we are Christians, and not only Philosophers; that the Lord hath taken care not onely to adorne our soules, but to save them.
- 1Diog. Laert. in Thalet•.
4. The infinite sweetness of his powerful and most efficacious grace, in persuading us to give entertainment unto the mercy thus tendered unto us, who of our selves were ready to believe lying vanities to forsake our own mercy, and to thrust away salvation from our selves,
4. The infinite sweetness of his powerfull and most efficacious grace, in perswading us to give entertainment unto the mercy thus tendred unto us, who of our selves were ready to beleeve lying vanities to forsake our own mercie, and to thrust away saluation from our selves,