The saints guide, in three treatises

The word is taken from a Theme which signifieth to judge, or condemn in judging, but it is not here meant in judgment, but a debating of the matter between God and a sinner. Now, if God should call a man to account and enter into judgment with a sinner, who is able to stand before him? what man may contend with him that is mightier? Ecclesia. 6.10. No man is able to abide God or contend with him in judgment. But God here deals with man answerable to the nature of a man, not with blows, but with reasonings and disputes, He, as it were, enters a Law Case with the poor ⟨p. 11⟩sinful sons of men, and proceeds in a judicial course to recover a poor sinner from the paths of death wherein he strayed, to his own worship which the sinner wholly declined from; as ye see men go to Law, one saith the Land is mine, another saith he hath best right to it, and so their title comes legally to be tried: Even so sin and Satan say the soul are theirs, and the sinner is content to go with with them to Hell, but the Lord enters lists, and claims by a higher title, and saith that the soul is his; by him it was created, Redeemed, made to honour his Creator, to be happy in his Saviour: And how God strives herein you shall see afterwards. But ⟨p. 12⟩I take this to be the value of the sense, so that from the first part of the Text, observe these four Doctrines.

The word is taken from a Theame which signifieth to judge, or condemne in judgeing, but it is not here meant in judgment, but a debating of the matter betweene God and a sinner. Now, if God should call a man to accompt and enter into judgment with a sinner, who is able to stand before him? what man may contend with him that is mightier? Ecclesia. 6.10. No man is able to abide God or contend with him in judgment. But God here deales with man answerable to the nature of a man, not with blowes, but with reasonings and disputes, He, as it were, enters a Law Case with the poore ⟨p. 11⟩sinnefull sonnes of men, and proceedes in a judiciall course to recover a poore sinner from the pathes of death wherein hee straied, to his owne worship which the sinner wholly declined from; as yee see men goe to Law, one saith the Land is mine, another saith hee hath best right to it, and so their title comes legally to be tried: Even so sinne and Satan say the soule are theirs, and the sinner is content to goe with with them to Hell, but the Lord enters lists, and claimes by a higher title, and saith that the soule is his; by him it was created, Redeamed, made to honour his Creator, to be happy in his Saviour: And how God strives herein you shall see afterwards. But