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A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A…A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A…
A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this country. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this countrey. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
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A Brief DISCOURSE, Made unto the Great and General Assembly of the… › Conclusion 3: Conclusion III.
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Finally; Was God Atoned upon an Expiatory Sacrifice? and the Criminal Released from the Confusion that belonged unto him, and Restored unto the Compassion of Heaven? Yes. Well; Such a Sacrifice is our Lord Jesus Christ; that our Peace with God, is thereby obtained. We read in Rom. 5 9, 10. We are Reconciled unto God, by the Death of His Son. So, Now we are not under a Sentence of Everlasting Death, as we were before our Believing on that Sacrifice. Now we draw near to God, whom we see sitting on a Mercy Seat. Now we have a claim to all that the Good Will of God ha's promised for the Heirs of Glory.
Finally; Was God Atoned upon an Expiatory Sacrifice? and the Criminal Released from the Confusion that belong'd unto him, and Restored unto the Compassion of Heaven? Yes. Well; Such a Sacrifice is our Lord Jesus Christ; that our Peace with God, is thereby obtained. We read in Rom. 5 9, 10. We are Reconciled unto God, by the Death of His Son. So, Now we are not under a Sentence of Everlasting Death, as we were before our Believing on that Sacrifice. Now we draw near to God, whom we see sitting on a Mercy Seat. Now we have a claim to all that the Good Will of God ha's promised for the Heirs of Glory.
But is it not an Unjust Thing?—Thirdly; No; Tis no Unjust Thing, that our Innocent Lord Jesus Christ, should be made an Expiatory Sacrifice, for the Sins of His Poor, Guilty, Condemned, Ungodly and Unworthy People. Indeed, ⟨p. 35⟩A Translation of the Punishment of Sin, by the Dispensation of God, is the very Foundation, of the Christian, and all Revealed, Religion. And that such a Translation may be without Iniquity in the Great God, is evident from the Instances actually given of it, by that God who can do no Iniquity. [See Exod. 20. 5. &