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Encouragements to faith Drawn from several engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive…Encouragements to faith Drawn from severall engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive…
Encouragements to faith Drawn from several engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive pardon sinners. By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.Encouragements to faith Drawn from severall engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive pardon sinners. By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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.
There are three things which do cry for Justice, and all do meet in this.
There are three things which do cry for Justice, and all do meete in this.
1. The wages of a hireling (if detained) are said to cry. So in the 5. of James it is said, The wages of Hirelings detained, do cry in the ears of the Lord of Hosts: They cry wages being due in justice, and because Gods Justice is thereby provoked, and cannot be quiet till God hath avenged it. And so would Christs satisfaction having been made for us; It would restlessly cry to God, and not suffer his Justice to be quiet, unless we were pardoned. For he was truly and indeed Gods hired Servant in this work: And God covenanted to give him the salvation of those he dyed for as his wages and reward, as Isaiah often represents it, Chap. 53. and elsewhere. So that if God be just, he must give forth salvation; otherwise Christs obedience would cry as the work of an hireling doth for wages.
1. The wages of a hireling (if detained) are said to cry. So in the 5. of Iames it is said, The wages of Hirelings detained, do crie in the eares of the Lord of Hosts: They cry wages being due in justice, and because Gods Justice is thereby provoked, and cannot be quiet till God hath avenged it. And so would Christs satisfaction having been made for us; It would restlesly cry to God, and not suffer his Justice to be quiet, unles we were pardoned. For he was truly and indeed Gods hired Servant in this work: And God covenanted to give him the salvation of those he dyed for as his wages and reward, as Isaiah often represents it, Chap. 53. and elsewhere. So that if God be just, he must give forth salvation; otherwise Christs obedience would cry as the work of an hireling doth for wages.
A Second thing that cries for justice, is the will of one that is dead unperformed, who hath bequeathed legacies, & left wherewith to pay and discharge them. And this is yet a louder cry then the former. Now Christ before he dyed, did thus make his will, and bequeathed