Sect. XXXII. Nothing can satisfie God for our sins but his Son.
VVHat is that which man can off r un∣to his Maker,* 1.1 to pacifie his wrath 'gainst sins? If he cold
To pneuma ksopyrén, or Sparkes of the spirit, being, motives to sacred theorems, and divine meditations. / By a reverend father of the Church of England.
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- To pneuma ksopyrén, or Sparkes of the spirit, being, motives to sacred theorems, and divine meditations. / By a reverend father of the Church of England.
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- Davies, Athanasius, b. 1620 or 21.
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- London, :: Printed for Edw. Thomas at the Adam and Eve in little Brittain without aldersgate,
- 1658.
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- Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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give the whole world unto God, what doth he offer, but what he hath received of God, and lost by his disobe∣dience? If man could offer himself, what offereth he but un••hankfulness, dust, and ashes, blasphemy and wickednes, which provokes Gods wrath more & more. If the Angells would offer themselves and their service to satisfie the wrath of the everlasting God, what were that but a thing finite in goodness to seek to cover an infi••it evill? Therefore God himself was fain to step between his Justice and Mercy, to reconcile us again unto him by his own me∣rits.
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Spark 32.
O Lord, from whence then cometh our help? Surely our help cometh of thee,f 1.2 which hast made heaven and earth. There was no other water to wa••h away Naaman's leprosie but Jordan'sp 1.3 No ladder that reached up to Heaven but Jacob's.q 1.4 No serpent that healed the Israelites but the brasen:k 1.5 So, there is no other Name under heaven whereby we may be saved,f 1.6 but only by thy name and merits, sweet Jesus. O Lord, it was not our own arm that helped us,b 1.7 but thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hast a favour
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unto us, it is thou that sa∣vest us from our enemies, and puttest them to confu∣sion that hate us.
Notes
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* 1.1
The Accep∣table Sacri∣fice.
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f 1.2
Psal. 121.
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p 1.3
2 Kings 5
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q 1.4
Gen. 28.12.
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k 1.5
Numb. 21 9.
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f 1.6
Acts 4.
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b 1.7
Psal. 44.3, 4.