God's love to man, and man's duty towards God: manifested in several discourses on the covenants of works and grace Wherein divers propositions are laid down, and sundry cases resolved. By John Barret, Minister of the Gospel.
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God's love to man, and man's duty towards God: manifested in several discourses on the covenants of works and grace Wherein divers propositions are laid down, and sundry cases resolved. By John Barret, Minister of the Gospel.
Author
Barret, John, 1631-1713.
Publication
London :: printed for S.R. and are to be sold by Jonathan Robinson, at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard,
MDCLXXVIII. [1678]
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Subject terms
Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Covenant theology -- Early works to 1800.
God -- Love -- Early works to 1800.
Grace (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.
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"God's love to man, and man's duty towards God: manifested in several discourses on the covenants of works and grace Wherein divers propositions are laid down, and sundry cases resolved. By John Barret, Minister of the Gospel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A78190.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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Sect. 2. PROP. II. The Great and Glorious God being Man's Crea∣tor, it follows by necessary and undeniable consequence, that he is the absolute proprie∣tor, owner, and disposer of this his Crea∣ture, Man's Soveraign Lord.
IT is he that hath made us, and his we are, Psal. 100.3. As there is a twofold reading of the words. In the Margin it is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉ipsi, vel ipsius; though in the Text it is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉non. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end of all things. All things made by him, and for him, Prov. 16.4. The Lord hath made all things for himself,
†ad responsum suum, as some render it. All his Creatures are to be as Servants at his beck, ready to answer to his call to doe what∣ever he appointeth, or commandeth. We having received our beings from him, and moving, and having our beings still in him, therefore surely we
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owe to him, Omne quod sumus, & omne quod possu∣mus, all we are, have, and can do, and ought ever to be at his dispose, and at his Command. An In∣dependant creature is a thing most abhorrent from reason, the greatest Monster that can be conceived, or thought of.
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