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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.
More particularly.
First. God will display His own ••finite Mercy, in receiving the Vilest of Sinners to His Mercy. When God will show Mercy, He will do it like a GOD. Hence, as God will have Mercy, on whom He will have Mercy, so He will make the Vilest of ⟨p. 14⟩Sinners, the Subjects of His Mercy: and He will put up Injuries, and pass by Offences, that would break the back of all Humane Patience. Thus 'tis said, Hos. 11.9. I will not Execute the fierceness of my Anger, for I am God, and not man. The Free-Grace and Mercy of God is a Boundless Ocean: And God will declare the Glory of His Mercy, by casting the Greatest of •ins, into the Depths of that Ocean. The Design of God, in bringing home Sinners to Himself, is to Exercise and Glorify His Free-Grace: He does what He does, to manifest the Exceeding Riches of His Grace. Now the Free Grace of the most High God, is Glorified unto the Height, in Choosing the Vilest of Sinners from the rest of mankind, and bringing them home unto Himself. As 'tis said; Tit. 3.3, 5. We were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, —but according to His Mercy He Saved us: Thus, when the most ⟨p. 15⟩foolish and hateful of Sinners, and they that wallowed in the Vilest of Lusts, are Saved, Oh, how much will the Mercy of God shine forth in their Salvation! Methinks, I overhear the Songs of the Redeemed; Lord, If thou hadst not been abundant in Mercy, I tha• have abounded in Sin, could never have been Saved! Lord, If thou hadst not Delighted in Mercy, thou would never have Saved me, that have made Sin my Delight! Lord, Thou art Merciful, and Ready to Pardon, Else I, who have been Ready to Sin, had never found a Pardon! And the Angels of God, make a Consort hereto, with Eternal Hallelujahs.