Early English Printed Sermons


The law and equity of the gospel, or, The goodness of our Lord as a legislator delivered first from the pulpit in two plain sermons, and now repeated from the press with others tending to the same end ... by Thomas Pierce ...

Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691
Publisher: Printed by S Roycroft for Robert Clavell
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1686
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A54843 ESTC ID: R38205 STC ID: P2185
Subject Headings: Christian life; Providence and government of God;
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In-Text Now God determin'd from all Eternity not to hinder from being done, what he eternally foreknew the congruous means I now mention'd would not prevail with wilful Creatures, so as to hinder them from doing. For why should He by his Omnipotence controul the Wills of those Creatures, whom both his Promises, and his Threats, his Miracles, and his Laws, and a competent measure of his Grace, have been so thanklesly and vainly bestow'd upon? When he cannot restrain our Wills by means agreeable to our Natures, or by any lesser means than what are destructive to our Wills, and by consequence to our Natures, (which he eternally determined he would not violate, ) How very justly must he needs suffer the worst of Actions, which withal he does direct to the best of Ends? Now God determined from all Eternity not to hinder from being done, what he eternally foreknew the congruous means I now mentioned would not prevail with wilful Creatures, so as to hinder them from doing. For why should He by his Omnipotence control the Wills of those Creatures, whom both his Promises, and his Treats, his Miracles, and his Laws, and a competent measure of his Grace, have been so thanklessly and vainly bestowed upon? When he cannot restrain our Wills by means agreeable to our Nature's, or by any lesser means than what Are destructive to our Wills, and by consequence to our Nature's, (which he eternally determined he would not violate,) How very justly must he needs suffer the worst of Actions, which withal he does Direct to the best of Ends? av np1 vvd p-acp d n1 xx pc-acp vvi p-acp vbg vdn, r-crq pns31 av-j vvd dt j n2 pns11 av vvn vmd xx vvi p-acp j n2, av c-acp p-acp vvb pno32 p-acp vdg. c-acp q-crq vmd pns31 p-acp po31 n1 vvi dt n2 pp-f d n2, ro-crq av-d po31 vvz, cc po31 vvz, po31 n2, cc po31 n2, cc dt j n1 pp-f po31 vvi, vhb vbn av av-j cc av-j vvn p-acp? c-crq pns31 vmbx vvi po12 n2 p-acp n2 j p-acp po12 n2, cc p-acp d jc n2 cs q-crq vbr j p-acp po12 n2, cc p-acp n1 p-acp po12 n2, (r-crq pns31 av-j vvn pns31 vmd xx vvi,) q-crq j av-j vmb pns31 av vvb dt js pp-f n2, r-crq av pns31 vdz vvi p-acp dt av-js pp-f vvz?




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