This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...and the Apostle approveth God's justice by the same, whiles that he saith: "God is not unjust, that he will forget your work." These and many other such places of scripture do sufficiently declare that God rewardeth the good works of godly men. And yet it is not to be inferred or collected, that they may trust to be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...and the Apostle approveth God's justice by the same, whiles that he saith: "God is not unjust, that he will forget your work." These and many other such places of scripture do sufficiently declare that God rewardeth the good works of godly men. And yet it is not to be inferred or collected, that they may trust to be justified and saved thereby: for the godly do freely and willingly confess, that their works are rewarded of grace, and not of their own merit; especially for that they ever do feel and perceive, that through human infirmity their works are never so perfit, but that they have need of God's mercy to mitigate the rigour of his justice and examining their good works. Therefore in consideration of their hire or reward, the godly extol God's grace and mercy, who giveth to the undeservings as though they had deserved; and, perceiving imbecility and wickedness in themselves, are humbled in minds, and cry with the prophet: "If thou, 0 Lord, mark our iniquities, who is able to abide it?" Almighty God's doing in this, and many other matters, may be resembled to carnal parents; who having sons to be their heirs by law of nature and birth-right, yet they inflame and kindle virtue, setting before their eyes gifts and rewards: whose gracious and virtuous children acknowledge themselves to owe all even of duty to their parents without rewards, and therefore they refer all such benefits and rewards to the mere bounty and liberality of their parents. They look not for hire and rewards, as servants and hirelings, but only for the favour and love of their heavenly Father. And as the sons of the free-woman, and not the sons of the bond-woman, are heirs; even so the kingdom of God is not the stipend of servants, but the reward and heritage of chi...
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