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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.
First. Though Every Sin be a Destructive Evil: yet God has provided a Remedy to deliver a Sinner from Destruction. As it was said, Hos. 13.9. O Israel, Thou hast destroyed thy self, but in me is thy Help: So may the God of Heaven say, O Sinner, thy Sin has destroyed thee, but I ha•e provided Help for thee. The Least Sin, is against the Great God. The Dignity of the Object affronted, and offended, by Sin, makes the Destruction of the offending Sinner, to be the Demerit of it: There must be a Destruction to the workers of Iniquity. But the Lord Jesus Christ, the God-man, has been made a Sacrifice to God for man. That Sacrifice has made Atonement for Sin. If we made use of that Sacrifice, we should be Delivered from the Destruction, whereto we are obnoxius.
First. Though Every Sin be a Destructive Evil: yet God has provided a Remedy to deliver a Sinner from Destruction. As it was said, Hos. 13.9. O Israel, Thou hast destroyed thy self, but in me is thy Help: So may the God of Heaven say, O Sinner, thy Sin has destroy'd thee, but I ha•e provided Help for thee. The Least Sin, is against the Great God. The Dignity of the Object affronted, and offended, by Sin, makes the Destruction of the offending Sinner, to be the Demerit of it: There must be a Destruction to the workers of Iniquity. But the Lord Jesus Christ, the God-man, has been made a Sacrifice to God for man. That Sacrifice has made Atonement for Sin. If we made use of that Sacrifice, we should be Delivered from the Destruction, whereto we are obnoxius.
Secondly. Unbelief is a Refusal ⟨p. 29⟩of the only Remedy, for the Deliverance of a Sinner from Destruction. As 'tis said, Heb. 2.3. How shall we Escape, if we neglect so great Salvation? Truly, Unbelief is a Neglecting, yea, a Rejecting of the Salvation, which God has prepared for us. Had a Stung Israelite Refused and Forbore, to have Looked unto the Healing Serpent, he must have remained unhealed; but he could have Blamed none but himself. An Unbeliever is a Refuser of the Lord Jesus Christ, and of that Wisdom, that Righteousness, that Sanctification, and that Redemption, which the Lord Jesus Christ is ready to bestow upon us. The Destruction of the Unbeliever cannot be prevented, because He Despises and Refuses, the Only Name whereby he can be Saved.