The wisdom of God in the redemption of man, eight sermons preach'd in the year 1708, of the lecture founded by R. Boyle

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Página 156 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Página 258 - But God, who is rich in mercy, for the great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ...
Página 259 - Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and fent his Son to be the propitiation for our fins.
Página 159 - Rom. v. i». by the offence of one man judgment came upon all men to condemnation, fo by the righteoufnefs of one mercy came upon all to juftification of life.
Página 163 - Priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others ; but now once in the end of the world He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
Página 37 - Tranfgreffion of our firft Parents made the whole Race of Mankind miferable and mortal. Some indeed object, that It is fcarce Righteous in God thus to punifh the whole Race of Mankind for the Sin of one fingle Man. And there had been fome Pretence for fuch a Plea, if we had had, not a Covenant, but a natural Right to Immortality, And Death might have been looked upon as a Debt of Nature had it not been exprefly threatened as the Punifhment of Sin. But when Mankind appears to have no rightful Claim...
Página 110 - How will they reconcile the Sufficiency of Repentance to expiate Sin before God, with the Juftice of punifhing penitent Criminals among Men ? If their Converfion takes not away their Guilt, it cannot expiate ; and if it does, why fhould the guiltlefs be put to Death ? If they fay, that the Sincerity of their Repentance cannot be known, and therefore muft not be taken Notice of, for fear they fhould...
Página 129 - ... never be capable of regaining our loft Glory, till our merciful God fhall find out a Saviour to atone for, and a Redeemer to reftore us. This is what the Gofpel tells us he has done by his Son Jefus Chrift, and how much wifer and better a Method that is, and how much more to the Glory of God, the Honour of his Goodnefs, Juftice, and Holinefs, and more agreeable to the Reafons of the firft Covenant, and the Authority of all his Laws, is the next Thing that we are to fpeak to, This is the, ^ *j...
Página 56 - Men will not admit of. For what is the Reafon why one Man is fared, and another damned? It muft be according to them, only becaufe in one, God will recede from his Right, and exercife an arbitrary Power in pardoning Sin, and in the other he will not. But you will fay, the one repents, and the other does not. What then ? Has not God, whofe Dominion is univerfal, a Right to pardon the Impenitent, as well as the Penitent, if he thinks fit ? But you will fay, that the want of Repentance makes it unfit...
Página 147 - ... Virtue of fomething done in our Nature by our Reprefentative, deriving thereby either Good or Evil upon us, without any Regard to our own Actions, and what we do in our own Perfons, and are either to fuffer, or to be rewarded for on that Account. The one is abfolute and univerfal, and has no Dependence on our own perfonal Actions, either to prevent or to promote it. The other as it is perfonal, fo it is conditional, and will be determined this Way or that, as we do good or evil.

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