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The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…
The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithful labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithfull labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.
London: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, 1653
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Answ. 1 First, It is true, God is not the worse, and hath not the less glory, though thou hast the more sin; yet this is no thanks to a sinner, for a sinner doth, what in him ⟨p. 82⟩lies to take all glory from God, to pull God out of heaven, it is no thanks to thee that God is never the worse for thy sin.
Answ. 1 First, It is true, God is not the worse, and hath not the lesse glory, though thou hast the more sin; yet this is no thanks to a sinner, for a sinner doth, what in him ⟨p. 82⟩lies to take all glory from God, to pull God out of heaven, it is no thankes to thee that God is never the worse for thy sin.
Secondly, In a sense God doth receive injury by a mans sin; as first, if you consider the eternal attributes of God in themselves, his Justice, his Glory, his Goodness, his Wisdom, so God is unchangeable, immutably blessed: and as our graces can give no additions to his holiness; so our sin can give no diminution to his glory, sin is an injury to God because God hath less external glory.
Secondly, In a sense God doth receive injury by a mans sin; as first, if you consider the eternall attributes of God in themselves, his Justice, his Glory, his Goodnesse, his Wisdom, so God is unchangeable, immutably blessed: and as our graces can give no additions to his holinesse; so our sin can give no diminution to his glory, sin is an injury to God because God hath lesse externall glory.