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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 Vilest of Sinners may become the Highest of Saints; and by Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, Escape the horrible Perdition, that shall Overwhelm those who Persist in Unbelief.
The Vilest of Sinners may become the Highest of Saints; and by Believing on the Lord Iesus Christ, Escape the horrible Perdition, that shall Overwhelm those who Persist in Vnbelief.
We have these PROPOSITIONS now before us.
I. The Great God singles […] sometimes the Vilest of Sinners, to make them the Highest of Saints. […] the Harlot Rahab, Stand as an Eternal Monument of what Forgiveness, what Holiness, what Blessedness, the V•lest of Sinners may arrive unto! Rahab, a Canaanitess, yea, an Amoritess, belonging to a Nation, devoted by God unto Everlasting Desolation; a ⟨p. 10⟩Serpent in a Generation of Vipers: Rahab, One that had worshipped Idols and Devils with her Spirit, and that with her Body perpetrated the most Filthy Villainy, the most Loathsome Filthiness: Rahab, a scandalous Wretch, a Pagan and a Prostitute▪ This Rahab you see incorporated into the only true Church of God, and so distinguished with signal smiles of Heaven. She became a Mother in Israel; Yea, a Mother to the Saviour of Israel. And when Salmon, an Eminent person in Israel Espoused her, it was not because of her Eminency in worldly Riches and Honours; for she had nothing: but because of her Eminency in Piety. If her Piety & Sanctity had not been as Notorious as once her Wickedness, doubtless the Oracles of God would not more than once in the New-Testament, have celebrated her, as a most Exemplary Person.