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Grace triumphant. Or, A notable example [sic] of a great sinner, becoming a great…Grace triumphant. Or, A notable exemple [sic] of a great sinner, becoming a great…
Grace triumphant. Or, A notable example [sic] of a great sinner, becoming a great saint. Improved for the direction and encouragement, of them that have sinned exceedingly, to seek salvation from all their sins. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]Grace triumphant. Or, A notable exemple [sic] of a great sinner, becoming a great saint. Improved for the direction and encouragement, of them that have sinned exceedingly, to seek salvation from all their sins. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]
printed by T. Green, 1700
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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.
The last Believer, of whose Faith, we have a particular Account and Applause, in the Apostolical Catalogue, •ow appears before us. It is a Woman, for Faith is Compatible to both Sexes: and it is a Woman of wonderful Circumstances, to be found in such a Catalogue. For the Larger and Fuller History of the matter, you must have Recourse to the Second Chapter of Joshua.
It is not among the Hebrews only, that the Examples of a Great Faith ⟨p. 5⟩are to be found: We find them among the Gentiles also: Rahab was one of them. Now, what was this Rahab? What was the Action of Rahab? What was the Issue of the Action?
First. The Person famous for Faith, was, The Harlot Rahab. The word that first signified an Hostess, did come also to signify an Harlot. In those Debauched Countries, and those Brutish Ages, Women that kept public Houses of Entertainment made them to be Bawdy Houses as well as Drinking Houses. 'Tis true, in our better Times of Christianity, we often see more Virtuous and Modest women, Employed about public Houses. But the Old Scandal should admonish them, to keep the stricter Guard upon their Virtue. Rahab it seems, comes under an unhappy Character, both for Idolatry and Unchastity: No doubt the One subordinate unto the Other. The Rites of Idolatry were nourished, and maintained ⟨p. 6⟩by the Snares of Unchastity. The women that served the Temples, where men did Sacrifice to Idols, were provided also for their Fornication. Rahab seems to have been of that quality. And it was not on any Ill Design, that the Honest men of Israel, went into the House of a woman of that quality; But God had prepared the Heart of the poor woman for their coming to her House, Even a Faith of Gods fulfilling to His Israel, the Great Promise of His Messiah to come. She had heard What Great Things had been done by God, for His Chosen people, and That these Great Things were in Order to the Appearing of the Redeemer of the world, one Day among them. And God set Home what she Heard; By this Hearing, there came Faith unto her.