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The mystery of Christ opened and applied. In several sermons, concerning the person, office,…The mystery of Christ opened and applyed. In several sermons, concerning the person, office,…
The mystery of Christ opened and applied. In several sermons, concerning the person, office, and glory of Jesus Christ. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in N. England. ; [Twelve lines of quotations]The mystery of Christ opened and applyed. In several sermons, concerning the person, office, and glory of Jesus Christ. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in N. England. ; [Twelve lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by Richard Pierce for Joseph Browning, 1686
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3. The Infinite Holiness of the blessed GOD ⟨p. 163⟩does punish sin not only from his Will but His Nature. 1. Sam. 2. 2. Rev. 15. 4. Hence God is said to hate Sin. Psal. 5. 4. Yea, and this Displicency against sin is natural •nto the Blessed God. He cannot but hate […]. It is inconsistent with the holy Nature o• God, to love any sin, or not to hate every sin. Hab. 1. 13. It is not said that God will not, but that He cannot took upon iniquity. He cannot approve of it; which evinceth that sin is contrary to the Nature of God, and that the purity of His Nature does require that Sin should be duly punished. And on the account of the infinite Holiness of God it is that He is compared to a consuming fire &c. Isai. 33. 15. because it is natural to God (acting nevertheless as a free and intellectual Agent) to hate and punish sin.
3. The Infinite Holiness of the blessed GOD ⟨p. 163⟩does punish sin not only from his Will but His Nature. 1. Sam. 2. 2. Rev. 15. 4. Hence God is said to hate Sin. Psal. 5. 4. Yea, and this Displicency against sin is natural •nto the Blessed God. He cannot but hate 〈…〉. It is inconsistent with the holy Nature o• God, to love any sin, or not to hate every sin.