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The combat between the flesh and spirit. As also the woeful with-drawing of the…The combate between the flesh and spirit. As also the wofull with-drawing of the…
The combat between the flesh and spirit. As also the woeful with-drawing of the Spirit of God, with the causes thereof: and walking in, and after the Spirit, together with the blessedness thereof. Being the sum and substance of XXVII. sermons: preached a little before his death, by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of the Gospel at Lawrence Jury London. To which is added the Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God may cast him into. In XV. sermons.The combate between the flesh and spirit. As also the wofull with-drawing of the Spirit of God, with the causes thereof: and walking in, and after the Spirit, together with the blessednesse thereof. Being the summe and substance of XXVII. sermons: preached a little before his death, by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of the Gospel at Lawrence Jury London. To which is added the Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God may cast him into. In XV. sermons.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for John Rothwell, 1654
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But now there is an objection lies in this, how it should be an hundred and twenty years before the flood should come, when these words were spoken, when Noah was five hundred years old, and the flood came when he was six hundred years old, therefore here is twenty years shorter then Gods promise?
But now there is an objection lies in this, how it should be an hundred and twenty years before the flood should come, when these words were spoken, when Noah was five hundred years old, and the flood came when he was six hundred yeares old, therefore here is twenty yeares shorter then Gods promise?
This is an intricate knot, and interpreters are forced to take much pains to untie it, and to vindicate the faithfulness of God herein, let God be true and every man a liar. Jerome he gives this answer, says he, It is true, God did promise an hundred and twenty years between the making of the promise and the accomplishment; the wickedness of men grew so great, and did so provoke God, that he did contract the promise to twenty years less; and thus Musculus also, who farther says, God making promise reserves the condition in his own breast; for as God may not bring a judgement threatened upon a people, upon their speedy repentance, as in the case of the Ninevites: so neither is he bound to give them a mercy promised, in case of wilful and obstinate and incorrigible wickedness, as in the case of Eli's family. I said (saith God to Eli) that thy house, and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever, But now the Lord saith, •e it far from me, &c.
This is an intricate knot, and interpreters are forced to take much paines to untie it, and to vindicate the faithfulnesse of God herein, let God be true and every man a lier. Jerome he gives this answer, saies he, It is true, God did promise an hundred and twenty years between the making of the promise and the accomplishment; the wickednesse of men grew so great, and did so provoke God, that he did contract the promise to twenty years lesse; and thus Musculus also, who farther saies, God making promise reserves the condition in his own breast; for as God may not bring a judgement threatened upon a people, upon their speedy repentance, as in the case of the Ninevites: so neither is he bound to give them a mercy promised, in case of wilful and obstinate and incorrigible wickednesse, as in the case of Elies family. I said (saith God to Eli) that thy house, and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever, But now the Lord saith, e it farre from me, &c.